Carrying Knowledge

• Published in: Becoming World Wise pp. 127 - 150
• Main Author: Slimbach, Richard
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: United Kingdom Routledge 2010; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Philosophy & theory of education; Issue Specific Information; Google Directory; Ill Office; Teenage Muslim Girls; Country Briefing; Full Text Database; Global Learning Experience; Researchable Issue; Net Travelers; Tentative Topics; World Wide Web Virtual Library; Library Database Research; Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; Follow; Subject Headings Searches; Personal E-mail Address; Familiar Databases; Search Engine; Muslim World; Buena Vista Social Club; Subject Headings; Anthropological Index Online; Face To Face
• ISBN: 1579223478; 157922346X; 9781579223472; 9781579223465
• DOI: 10.4324/9781003443209-6

This chapter explores strategic, responsible, and discerning ways of searching for information through online sources and electronic searches. Much of the cultural knowledge available today can be accessed electronically. With the advent of the CD-ROM, online databases, and the Internet, it has never been easier to gather and process vast amounts of place- and people-specific information. Carrying knowledge conveys a curious and concerned self, one who cares enough about the peoples and places in one's destination country to invest the time learning about them. Among the many benefits arising from the global movement of people across national borders is the unprecedented opportunity for face-to-face encounters with different cultures in our own backyard. Traditionally, anthropologists would step outside their own social worlds and brave unfamiliar climates and customs in order to describe the way other people live or have lived. The written accounts of these ways of life are known as ethnographies.