Cultures in Conversation

is written to introduce readers to the ethnographic study of intercultural and social interactions. This is done by analyzing several specific conversations in which different cultural orientations are operating, seeking to hear in them, cultures at work. The particular cases analyzed and commented on involve conversations that bring together practices from Britain, Finland, Russia, Blackfeet Country, and the United States, with each being in some sense distinctive in its communication codes, that is, in its use of symbolic meanings, forms, norms, and motivational themes.