This collection of essays from leading scholars in anthropology, psychology, and linguistics is an outgrowth
of the internationally known 'Chicago Symposia on Culture and Human Development.' It raises the idea of a new discipline
of cultural psychology through the study of the relationship between psyche and culture, subject and object, person
and world, with special reference to core areas of human development: cognition, learning, self, personality dynamics,
and gender. The essays critically examine such questions as: Is there an intrinsic psychic unity to humankind?
Can cultural traditions transform the human psyche, resulting less in psychic unity than in ethnic divergences
in mind, self, and emotion? Are psychological processes local or specific to the socio-cultural environments in
which they are imbedded?