Comments on Plains Indian Cultural Development

Comments on Commentaries About Cultural Psychology

I wish to thank Andrei Brushlinkii for his kind invitation to enter into a discussion with Russian colleagues who have taken the time to read and comment on my recent book. The invitation to discuss the role of culture in human development in this forum is, as the expression goes, “the opportunity of a lifetime” because I have sought to promote dialogue between American and Russian psychologist...

Beyond Bulletin 38 Comments on the Traditional Cultural Properties Symposium

A s co-author, with Patricia L. Parker, of National Register Bulletin 38 (Parker and King 1990), I am much cheered by the preceding papers. As did the symposia that produced them, they show that traditional cultural properties have become the focus of intellectual ferment in and around historic preservation. Moreover, they illustrate a kind of cross-cultural ferment that should be healthy for p...

Cultural Perspective in Indian Psychiatry

V^ulture though apparently elusive is always present in our day to day practice of psychiatry. A look at the history of cultural psychiatry amply demonstrates it. With the gradual and difficult entry of psychiatry into the realm of medicine came classification of various mental problems into disease entities. Proof of both scientific status and physical causation lay in finding universality of ...

Cultural Development and Social Development in Iran

Cultural Development and Social Development in Iran