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9780135306345
This book helps North Americans better understand the French by taking an in-depth look at French culture, and using history and cultural anthropology to illuminate the present. It offers an interpretation of some historical roots of French attitudes and institutions, as well as the changes in French society over the past three decades, to suggest and predict patterns of behavior. Offering a comparative outlook, this book provides a framework-for those with an advanced command of the French language-to describe France and the French in relation to others and to themselves. Chapter topics explore French points of view, family structures, the structure of society, religion, and more. For individuals with a good understanding of the French language-looking for a better understanding of everything else French.Wylie, Laurence is the author of 'Les Francais' with ISBN 9780135306345 and ISBN 0135306345.
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