A discipline is emerging called cultural psychology; it will serve
as a force of renewal for both anthropology and psychology. In this
book Richard Shweder presents its manifesto. Its central theme is
that we have to understand the way persons, cultures, and natures
make each other up. Its goal is to seek the mind indissociably
embedded in the meanings and resonances that are both its product
and its components.
Over the past thirty years the person as a category has
disappeared from ethnography. Shweder aims to reverse this trend,
focusing on the search for meaning and the creation of intentional
worlds. He examines the prospect for a reconciliation of
rationality and relativism and defines an intellectual agenda for
cultural psychology.
What Shweder calls for is an exploration of the human mind, and
of one's own mind, by thinking through the ideas and practices of
other peoples and their cultures. He examines evidence of
cross-cultural similarities and differences in mind, self, emotion,
and morality with special reference to the cultural psychology of a
traditional Hindu temple town in India, where he has done
considerable work in comparative anthropology. And he critiques the
concept of the "person" implicit in Western social science, as well
as psychiatric theories of the "subject." He maintains that it will
come as no surprise to cultural psychology if it should turn out
that there are different psychological generalizations or
"nomological networks"--a Hindu psychology, a Protestant
psychology--appropriate for the different semiotic regions of the
world. Shweder brings the news that God is alive not dead, but that
there are many gods.
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