It is broadly defined as a process when a person is getting used to the foreign (or by any other means strange) environment (Pedersen 1). The conflict is expressed in how the author describes her culture shock when introduced to the native women’s way of treating children or the procedure of female genital mutilation, for that matter.Ĭulture shock is strictly personal. The collision of the author’s feelings and her inclinations as a professional anthropologist is almost tangible. However, in the course of reading, the author’s emotive discourse may distract some parts of the audience from the actual message of the book. Even the title of the book is meant to arouse the readers’ anticipation and generally make the book interesting, thus extending the target audience. She seems unwilling to overly complicate the book with academic language, relying mostly on what she supposes to be common sense. This might be the reason the author included her personal opinions and quoted conversation in the text. The text was possibly meant to encourage students and people who are interested in anthropology to further explore the field. Being a scientist devoted to her field of study, Dettwyler wrote the book in a conversationally vivid manner.
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