Bolivia - Culture Smart! The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture: The Essential Guide to Customs and Culture
by: Keith Richards (Author),Culture Smart!(Author)
Publisher:Kuperard
Publication Date: 25 Jun. 2009
Language:English
Print Length:168 pages
ISBN-10:185733485X
ISBN-13:9781857334852
Book Description
"Culture Smart! Bolivia" explains how to avoid cultural gaffes when out and about in the country. Giving the historical, political and cultural background, the guide reveals how to read body language and be aware of potential pitfalls in communication."Culture Smart! Bolivia" provides priceless cultural information not found in an average guidebook. Whether looking to secure a business deal, enrich your travels, or better understand the people and customs of Bolivia, "Culture Smart!" provides indispensable information. Culture Smart! provides rare insights, and practical guidance, into cultures. The values, behaviour and customs of peoples have been formed over centuries which is why the unique information in Culture Smart! guides do not date in the same way as ordinary travel guides. Culture Smart! enables you to step into a world untouched by other guidebooks.
About the Author
Review "Culture Smart! has come to the rescue of hapless travellers, Sunday Times Travel -...the perfect introduction to the weird, wonderful and downright odd quirks and customs of various countries, Global Travel -...full of fascinating, as well as common sense, tips to help you avoid embarrassing faux pas, Observer -...as useful as they are entertaining, Easy Jet Magazine -...offer glimpses into the psyche of a faraway world, New York Times." . --Sunday Times Travel
About the Author KEITH JOHN RICHARDS was born in London in 1953.He has lived in Italy, Peru, Costa Rica, and the United States, as well as Bolivia. He received his Ph.D. in 1994 from King s College, University of London, for a thesis on the Bolivian novelist and historian Néstor Taboada Terán, which was published in 1999 as Lo imaginario mestizo (The Mestizo Imaginary). His critical bilingual anthology, Narrative from Tropical Bolivia, was published in 2004. Keith Richards has taught Latin American film, literature, and popular culture at universities in Britain, the USA, and Bolivia. He has published widely on all these subjects and co-organized Latin American film symposia and festivals at the universities of Leeds (UK) and Richmond (Virginia). He has lived in La Paz, Bolivia, since 2005 and divides his time between teaching at the Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and writing; he is currently preparing a book on Latin American cinema.
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