Culture, Thought, and Development

by Larry Nucci (Editor), Geoffrey B. Saxe (Editor), Elliot Turiel (Editor)

In this volume, the reader will find a host of fresh perspectives. Authors seek to reconceptualize problems, offering new frames for understanding relations between culture and human development.

Contributors include scholars from the disciplines of philosophy, law, theology, anthropology, developmental psychology, neuro- and evolutionary psychology, linguistics, cognitive science, and physics. To help organize the discussions, the volume is divided into three parts. Each part reflects an arena of current scholarly activity related to the analysis of culture, cognition, and development.

The editors cast a wide but carefully crafted net in assembling contributions to this volume. Though the contributors span a wide range of disciplines, features common to the work include both clear departures from the polemics of nature-nurture debates and a clear focus on interacting systems in individuals' activities, leading to novel developmental processes. All accounts are efforts to mark new and productive paths for exploring intrinsic relations between culture and development.

432 pages, Kindle Edition

First published October 1, 2000

Reviews

[Toby Newton · Rating 5 out of 5]

A collection of individually interesting essays which, taken together, provide much food for thought about the ways and means by way of which we turn out human

Merlin Donald's contribution is a brilliant short read on the role of culture in cognitive development.