Richard Shweder
Richard A. Shweder, is an American cultural anthropologist and a significant figure in cultural psychology. He received his B.A. in anthropology from the University of Pittsburgh in 1966 and his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University's Department of Social Relations in 1972. He taught at the University of Nairobi in Nairobi, Kenya, for one year. Since 1973, he has been a faculty member at the University of Chicago where he is currently professor in the Department of Comparative Human Development and in the Department of Psychology.
His main fieldwork outside the United States has been in the temple town of Bhubaneswar in the state of Orissa, India.[1] Among other topics, his fieldwork in India has looked at cross-cultural concepts of the person, self, emotions, and moral reasoning.
He has also published extensively on matters relevant to the "culture wars" debates in cultural studies in the U.S., and has advocated forms of cultural pluralism while being mindful of the practical and ethical difficulties certain kinds of pluralism entail. He chaired a joint Social Science Research Council/Russell Sage Foundation Working Group on "Ethnic Customs, Assimilation and American Law", concerned with the issue of the "Free exercise of culture: How Free Is It? How Free Ought It To Be?" He has also commented upon military uses of anthropology for counterinsurgency and other purposes outside of the United States.
He is a past president of the Society for Psychological Anthropology. He is the recipient of numerous academic awards and research grants.
References
Selected publications
- Shweder, Richard A., and Robert A. Levine, editors. (1984) Culture Theory: Essays on Mind, Self and Emotion. New York: Cambridge University Press.
- Shweder, Richard A., and D.W. Fiske, editors. (1986) Metatheory in Social Science: Pluralisms and Subjectivities. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Richard A. Shweder (1988), Suffering in Style, "Review of Arthur Kleinman's (1986) book Social Origins of Distress and Disease", Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry 12: 479–497, doi:10.1007/BF00054499, http://www.springerlink.com/content/hnx262180v304648/ (See also chapter 8 in Thinking through cultures, which is substantially the same text with minor amendments).
- Shweder, Richard A (1991), Thinking through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, ISBN 0-674-88416-7, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=7DmCoEsxVxQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Thinking+through+cultures%22&source=bl&ots=b-yGu16oFO&sig=BTpD4C9pX7y5q0LWtTluYvg4ss4&hl=en&ei=wq79S7-nF4qycanKmZAK&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false
- R A Shweder, and M A Sullivan (January 1993), "Cultural Psychology: Who Needs It?", Annual Review of Psychology 44: 497–523, doi:10.1146/annurev.ps.44.020193.002433
- Jessor, Richard, Anne Colby, and Richard Shweder, editors. (1996) Ethnography and Human Development: Context and Meaning in Social Inquiry. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
- Stigler, James, Richard A. Shweder, Gilbert Herdt (eds), ed. (1999. First published 1990), Cultural Psychology: Essays on comparative human development, Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-37804-4, http://books.google.com.au/books?id=Rmc9ucmfoAMC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22Cultural+psychology%22&hl=en&ei=BKn9S8yXCZmvcJnxpPIJ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&ved=0CDYQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
- Richard A. Shweder & Jonathan Haidt (2000), "The Cultural Psychology of Emotions: Ancient and New", in M. Lewis & J.M. Haviland-Jones (eds), Handbook of Emotions (2nd ed.), New York: Guilford Press, pp. 379–414, http://faculty.virginia.edu/haidtlab/articles/shweder.haidt.2000.cultural-psychology-of-the-emotions.pub018.pdf
- Shweder, Richard A., Martha Minow, and Hazel Markus, editors. (2002) Engaging Cultural Differences: The Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies. New York: Russell Sage Foundation Press.
- Shweder, Richard A., "Why do Men Barbecue?" (2002).
- Good, Byron and Richard Shweder (editors), ed. (2005), Clifford Geertz by His Colleagues, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0-226-75610-6
- Shweder, Richard A. 2007. “A True Culture War.” The New York Times 10/27/07.
- Shweder, Richard A., editor, (2009) The Child: An Encyclopedic Companion. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press
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