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" ... differences through what amounts to a process of creative, and often expedient, misunderstandings. People try to persuade others who are different from themselves by appealing to what they perceive to be the values and practices of those others. "
The Conquest of Ainu Lands: Ecology and Culture in Japanese Expansion, 1590-1800 - Page 8
by Brett L. Walker - 2001 - 332 pages
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The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region ...

Richard White - History - 1991 - 564 pages
...the values and practices of those others. They often misinterpret and distort both the values and the practices of those they deal with, but from these...- the shared meanings and practices of the middle ground. This accommodation took place because for long periods of time in large parts of the colonial...
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Contact Points: American Frontiers from the Mohawk Valley to the Mississippi ...

Andrew Robert Lee Cayton, Fredrika J. Teute - History - 1998 - 412 pages
...Atlantic America, 1492-18uo (New Haven, Conn., 1986l, 225. pedient, misunderstandings," but from which "misunderstandings arise new meanings and through...practices— the shared meanings and practices of the middle ground." : The interest in coexistence and mutuality has powerfully influenced historians of the British...
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Circles of Time: Aboriginal Land Rights and Resistance in Ontario

David T. McNab - History - 1999 - 289 pages
...from themselves by appealing to what they perceive to be the values and practices of those others. They often misinterpret and distort both the values...from these misunderstandings arise new meanings and new practices — the shared meanings and practices of the middle ground.1 However, in defining the...
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Cahokia: Mirror of the Cosmos

Sally A. Kitt Chappell - History - 2002 - 252 pages
...the values and practices of those others. They often misinterpret and distort both the values and the practices of those they deal with, but from these...— the shared meanings and practices of the middle ground. This accommodation took place because for long periods of time in large parts of the colonial...
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Irokesen und Demokratie: ein Beitrag zur Soziologie interkultureller ...

Thomas Wagner - Intercultural communication - 2004 - 402 pages
...the values and practices ofthose others. They often misinterpret and distort both the values and the practices of those they deal with, but from these...- the shared meanings and practices of the middle ground." (White 1991: X) Um eine auf solche Weise als 'middle ground' zu charakterisierende Hybridzone...
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Globalization and Urbanization in Africa

Toyin Falola, Steven J. Salm - History - 2004 - 310 pages
...themselves by appealing to what they perceive to be the values and the practices of those others. Thej often misinterpret and distort both the values and...misunderstandings arise new meanings and through them new practices-the shared meanings and practices of the middle ground.21 "Creative misunderstandings" were...
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Geographies of Identity in Nineteenth-Century Japan

David L. Howell - History - 2005 - 272 pages
...the values and practices of those others. They often misinterpret and distort both the values and the practices of those they deal with, but from these...— the shared meanings and practices of the middle ground.55 White limits his analysis to colonial North America, but the concept of the middle ground...
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Polkabilly: How the Goose Island Ramblers Redefined American Folk Music

James Leary - Music - 2006 - 272 pages
...from themselves by appealing to what they perceive to be the values and practices of those others. They often misinterpret and distort both the values...— the shared meanings and practices of the middle ground. (White 1 99 1 : x) Frequent, highly charged, and sufficiently mysterious to inspire confusion...
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Heian Japan, Centers and Peripheries: Centers and Peripheries

Mikael S. Adolphson, Edward Kamens, Stacie Matsumoto - Art - 2007 - 466 pages
...the values and practices of those others. They often misinterpret and distort both the values and the practices of those they deal with, but from these...— the shared meanings and practices of the middle ground" (p. x). It is in these shared meanings and practices that we may be able to understand the...
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