{"product_id":"metaphors-we-live-by-tele-9798180031273","title":"Metaphors We Live By: Book XIV: Culture, Belonging, \u0026 Identity","description":"\u003cb\u003eMetaphors We Live By: Book XIV\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCulture, Belonging, \u0026amp; Identity\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe fish does not know it is in water.\u003cbr\u003eCulture is this.\u003cbr\u003eIt is not the environment you observe.\u003cbr\u003eIt is the medium through which you observe everything else.\u003cbr\u003eThe assumptions so fundamental they are not experienced as assumptions.\u003cbr\u003eThe way things are understood to work, before the question of whether they might work differently ever arises. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMetaphors We Live By: Culture, Belonging, \u0026amp; Identity is a collection of forty essays examining how culture forms the self before the self is old enough to evaluate it, what belonging costs and what it provides, and what happens to identity when the culture that shaped it no longer fits. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInside, you will explore: \u003cbr\u003e- Why the deepest cultural assumptions are not revised by information but by immersion\u003cbr\u003e- How belonging has terms and conditions that are only fully revealed at the border\u003cbr\u003e- What outsiders see about a culture that insiders cannot access from inside\u003cbr\u003e- Why assimilation moves in one direction and what is left at the door\u003cbr\u003e- How the group shapes the self before the self notices the shaping\u003cbr\u003e- What leaving costs, even when leaving was the right decision \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not an anthropology of culture.\u003cbr\u003eThis is not a guide to belonging.\u003cbr\u003eIt is a series of observations about the invisible formation. How culture enters before it can be evaluated, how belonging exacts its price, and what identity is made of when the water finally becomes visible.\u003cbr\u003eFor those formed by a culture they did not choose.\u003cbr\u003eOr trying to understand what that formation produced.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Tele\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798180031273\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/04\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.21lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19d","brand":"Tele","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":50546484740351,"sku":"9798180031273","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/metaphors-we-live-by-tele-9798180031273","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}