Familiar stranger

Tourist-tourist relationships What do tourists think of the presence of others and under what circumstances are these co-actors seen as contributors to or detractors from the travel experience Goal interference hypotheses Tourist gaze In group-out group scheme Familiar strangers, the flaneur Social situations analysis... 

Fraser, J. T. (1987). Time, the familiar stranger. Amherst University of Massachusetts Press. 

Labor inspectors reports often tend to be dismissed as documents to be tolerated and summarily dealt with or even ignored if possible, rather than as sources of valuable health information. However, some very useful information on health trends can be derived from them over and above the demands that they may present. An inspector looks at plant operations with the eyes of an informed stranger, and because of that, he or she can see things that someone who is familiar with the operation might overlook just because of that familiarity. 

The familiar things here are the people who have come with me. They appear as known quantities because I knew them in the past. So long as the future remains like the past, they would remain known. Certainly this is not New York, Boulder, or Berkeley, and it is not easy to become extra-environmentals, to develop a sense of appropriate action that is never at a loss for savoir faire. The cool aesthetic of the stranger "Me, Ma am I m just passing through." It is the familiarity of these people that makes them windows in my imagination opening into the past. 

In this experiment, a person wears a T-shirt for 24 h. After that time, the shirt is placed in a bncket or paper bag, so that it can be smelled, but not seen. In addition to discrimination between male and female shirts, the participants are classified into the male or female category, to determine whether the genders differ in discrimination acuity. Further, subjects may differ in their degree of familiarity or relatedness with the odor donor(s). We can then ask whether subjects are able to pick out individual odors of close genetic relatives, spouses, or close friends from among a series of odors of strangers. 

Perhaps mention should be made here of the occasional help of comprehensive historical articles, especially if their aim was to present a complete survey of a subject. An American example is the paper by Silliman (21) on American Contributions to Chemistry which covers over 60 pages. In this review of the work of the century 1774 to 1874 one finds not only the names of now familiar periodicals, such as the Journal of the Franklin Institute and American Journal of Science, but also less familiar ones, such as New York Medical Repository, Boston Journal of Chemistry, New York Medical and Philosophical Journal, Thomsons Annals of Philosophy, Memoire des savants Strangers, and Memoiri degli spectroscopisti italiani. 

Rod Oh, Christ, they got you too..." The words shrank as Vosburgh s familiar face twisted. A feral-faced stranger sneered down at him hair was visibly sprouting out of his cheeks. Not a beard, more like thick prickly fur. 

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