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One of the major questions of cultural psychology is how to take diversity seriously while acknowledging our shared humanity. This collection, edited by Julia L. Cassaniti and Usha Menon, brings together leading scholars in the field to reconsider that question and explore the complex mechanisms that connect culture and the human mind.   The contributors to Universalism without Uniformity offer tools for bridging silos that have historically separated anthropology’s attention to culture and psychology’s interest in universal mental processes. Throughout, they seek to answer intricate yet fundamental questions about why we are motivated to find meaning in everything around us and, in turn, how we constitute the cultural worlds we inhabit through our intentional involvement in them. Laying bare entrenched disciplinary blind spots, this book offers a trove of insights on issues such as morality, emotional functioning, and conceptions of the self across cultures. Filled with impeccable empirical research coupled with broadly applicable theoretical reflections on taking psychological diversity seriously, Universalism without Uniformity breaks new ground in the study of mind and culture. 

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Universalism without Uniformity brings together a diverse group of scholars who reach across a truly remarkable interdisciplinary range of cultural psychology. Together, they examine the impressive impact cultural psychology has had on a broad spectrum of analytic interests, all the while deploying a variety of methodologies to explore the historical, social, political, and cultural configuration of so-called 'mental' processes, faculties, and contents. Of considerable theoretical and practical importance, this book will engage a broad audience of scholars in psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and beyond. --Jason Throop, University of California Universalism without Uniformity is a cornucopia of intriguing examples of research on emotions, mental health, child-rearing, and morality from psychological anthropology and cultural psychology. The distinctive contribution of this volume lies in its mix of theoretical and methodological approaches, which illuminate different ways of thinking about what culture is and what it means to say that culture and psyche are 'co-constitutive'. --Claudia Strauss, Pitzer College Universalism without Uniformity is a powerful homage to Richard A. Shweder's generative work in cultural psychology. . . the chapters provide rich and varied perspectives. . . The volume reminds us of the predominantly nonmedicalized roots of this field, while beginning to engage with current significant issues in medical anthropology. --Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Universalism without Uniformity offers a rich survey across various ethnographic and cultural realities with the aim of understanding how to combine mind and culture in social research. Through various lenses, approaches, and types of empirical research, the contributors illuminate how culture matters in the human mind's functioning and how engaging meaningfully with cultural differences is becoming of greater importance not only for psychology and anthropology but for the social sciences in general. -- American Ethnologist Universalism without Uniformity brings together a diverse group of scholars who reach across a truly remarkable interdisciplinary range of cultural psychology. Together, they examine the impressive impact cultural psychology has had on a broad spectrum of analytic interests, all the while deploying a variety of methodologies to explore the historical, social, political, and cultural configuration of so-called 'mental' processes, faculties, and contents. Of considerable theoretical and practical importance, this book will engage a broad audience of scholars in psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and beyond. -- Jason Throop, University of California Universalism without Uniformity is a cornucopia of intriguing examples of research on emotions, mental health, child-rearing, and morality from psychological anthropology and cultural psychology. The distinctive contribution of this volume lies in its mix of theoretical and methodological approaches, which illuminate different ways of thinking about what culture is and what it means to say that culture and psyche are 'co-constitutive'. -- Claudia Strauss, Pitzer College Universalism without Uniformity is a powerful homage to Richard A. Shweder's generative work in cultural psychology. . . the chapters provide rich and varied perspectives. . . The volume reminds us of the predominantly nonmedicalized roots of this field, while beginning to engage with current significant issues in medical anthropology. -- Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Universalism without Uniformity is a powerful homage to Richard A. Shweder's generative work in cultural psychology. . . the chapters provide rich and varied perspectives. . . The volume reminds us of the predominantly nonmedicalized roots of this field, while beginning to engage with current significant issues in medical anthropology. -- Medical Anthropology Quarterly Universalism without Uniformity is a cornucopia of intriguing examples of research on emotions, mental health, child-rearing, and morality from psychological anthropology and cultural psychology. The distinctive contribution of this volume lies in its mix of theoretical and methodological approaches, which illuminate different ways of thinking about what culture is and what it means to say that culture and psyche are 'co-constitutive'. -- Claudia Strauss, Pitzer College Universalism without Uniformity brings together a diverse group of scholars who reach across a truly remarkable interdisciplinary range of cultural psychology. Together, they examine the impressive impact cultural psychology has had on a broad spectrum of analytic interests, all the while deploying a variety of methodologies to explore the historical, social, political, and cultural configuration of so-called 'mental' processes, faculties, and contents. Of considerable theoretical and practical importance, this book will engage a broad audience of scholars in psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and beyond. -- Jason Throop, University of California Universalism without Uniformity offers a rich survey across various ethnographic and cultural realities with the aim of understanding how to combine mind and culture in social research. Through various lenses, approaches, and types of empirical research, the contributors illuminate how culture matters in the human mind's functioning and how engaging meaningfully with cultural differences is becoming of greater importance not only for psychology and anthropology but for the social sciences in general. -- American Ethnologist

"""Universalism without Uniformity offers a rich survey across various ethnographic and cultural realities with the aim of understanding how to combine mind and culture in social research. Through various lenses, approaches, and types of empirical research, the contributors illuminate how culture matters in the human mind's functioning and how engaging meaningfully with cultural differences is becoming of greater importance not only for psychology and anthropology but for the social sciences in general.""-- ""American Ethnologist"" ""Universalism without Uniformity brings together a diverse group of scholars who reach across a truly remarkable interdisciplinary range of cultural psychology. Together, they examine the impressive impact cultural psychology has had on a broad spectrum of analytic interests, all the while deploying a variety of methodologies to explore the historical, social, political, and cultural configuration of so-called 'mental' processes, faculties, and contents. Of considerable theoretical and practical importance, this book will engage a broad audience of scholars in psychology, anthropology, philosophy, and beyond.""-- ""Jason Throop, University of California"" ""Universalism without Uniformity is a cornucopia of intriguing examples of research on emotions, mental health, child-rearing, and morality from psychological anthropology and cultural psychology. The distinctive contribution of this volume lies in its mix of theoretical and methodological approaches, which illuminate different ways of thinking about what culture is and what it means to say that culture and psyche are 'co-constitutive'.""-- ""Claudia Strauss, Pitzer College"" ""Universalism without Uniformity is a powerful homage to Richard A. Shweder's generative work in cultural psychology. . . the chapters provide rich and varied perspectives. . . The volume reminds us of the predominantly nonmedicalized roots of this field, while beginning to engage with current significant issues in medical anthropology.""-- ""Medical Anthropology Quarterly"""

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Julia Cassaniti is assistant professor of anthropology at Washington State University. Usha Menon is professor of anthropology at Drexel University.

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