Description: In these provocative essays, one of the most brilliant advocates of cultural psychology maintains that cultural differences in mental life lie at the heart of any understanding of the human condition. 1 halftone. 4 line illustrations.
Brief description: Richard A. Shweder, a cultural anthropologist, is the William Claude Reavis Professor of Human Development, University of Chicago.
Review Quotes: How much cultural relativism is enough? Whether you consider yourself a modernist with universalist sympathies or a post-modernist with completely pluralist preferences, you will be given pause by the arguments in this book. You will be informed, amused, infuriated, moved, and prompted to doubt deep personal convictions - often within the space of a single paragraph. No serious student of psychological anthropology or cultural psychology can ignore Shweder's commentary on the great issues confronting those fields.--Richard E. Nisbett, University of Michigan