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It was once assumed that the bedrock concepts of psychology held true for all the world's peoples. More recently, post-modern approaches to research have expanded on these Western models, building a psychology that takes into account the sociopolitical, historical, religious, ecological, and other indigenous factors that make every culture, as well as every person as agents of their own actions.

Indigenous and Cultural Psychology surveys psychological and behavioral phenomena in native context in various developing and developed countries, with particular focus on Asia. An international team of 28 experts clarifies culture-specific concepts (such as paternalism and the Japanese concept of amae), models integrative methods of study, and dispels typical misconceptions about the field and its goals. The results reflect culturally sound frames of reference while remaining rigorous, systematic, and verifiable. These approaches provide a basis for the discovery of true psychological universals.

Among the topics featured:

- Scientific and philosophical bases of indigenous psychology

- Comparisons of indigenous, cultural, and cross-cultural psychologies

- Socialization, parent-child relationship, and family

- The private and public self: concepts from East Asia, Europe, and the Americas

- Interpersonal relationships: concepts from East Asia, Europe,, and the U.S.

- Factors promoting educational achievement and organizational effectiveness in Asia

- The growth and indigenization of psychology in developing and developed countries

- Are any values, attitudes, beliefs and traits universal? Cross-national comparisons

- The potential for indigenous psychology to lead to a global psychology

With this book, the editors have captured a growing field at a crucial stage in its evolution. Indigenous and Cultural Psychology benefits students and researchers on twolevels, offering groundbreaking findings on understudied concepts, and signaling future directions in universal knowledge.

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CHOICE Review

This book covers issues that are both significant and somewhat new. The study of people's feelings, actions, and thought processes in a culture, "indigenous psychology" uses data-gathering techniques and concepts coming from that culture and ideally carried out by researchers who are native to the culture. Indigenous psychology differs from cultural psychology, cross-cultural psychology, and cultural anthropology, although it overlaps with these fields a bit. Most of the contributors to the present volume--which covers Poland, Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Mexico, the Philippines, Greece, Canada, and India--would like these indigenous psychologies to lead to a universal psychology. Several early chapters denigrate Western (particularly American) psychology, conflating it with imperialism and arguing that it is not a universal psychology. The book's first section, "Theoretical and Methodological Issues," advocates the use of the constructive realism theory of Austrian philosopher of science Fritz Wallner, who cowrote one chapter. The remaining four sections are "Family and Socialization," "Cognitive Processes," "Self and Personality," and "Application," and among the subjects treated are humanism-materialism, paternalism, Confucianism, Taoism, and Hinduism. This book fits best in the literature of anthropology. ^BSumming Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. R. W. Smith emeritus, California State University, Northridge