Engaging Cultural Differences

by Shweder, Richard A.; Minow, Martha; Markus, Hazel Rose

• ISBN13: 9780871547958
• ISBN10: 0871547953
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-12-01
• Publisher: Russell Sage Foundation

Table of Contents

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	xi
CONTRIBUTORS	xiii
Introduction ENGAGING CULTURAL DIFFERENCES
Richard A. Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus	1	(16)
PART I ONE NATION, MANY CULTURES: CONTESTED PRACTICES AND GROUP STATUS IN LIBERAL DEMOCRACIES	17	(128)
Chapter 1 EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT ASSIMILATION BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco	19	(24)
Chapter 2 LIVING WITH MULTICULTURALISM: UNIVERSALISM AND PARTICULARISM IN AN INDIAN HISTORICAL CONTEXT
Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph	43	(20)
Chapter 3 LEGISLATING RELIGIOUS FREEDOM: MUSLIM CHALLENGES TO THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHURCH AND STATE IN GERMANY AND FRANCE
Katherine Pratt Ewing	63	(18)
Chapter 4 CIVILIZING THE NATIVES: CUSTOMARY MARRIAGE IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA
David L. Chambers	81	(18)
Chapter 5 IMMIGRANTS, AGENCY, AND ALLEGIANCE: SOME NOTES FROM ANTHROPOLOGY AND FROM LAW
Jane Maslow Cohen and Caroline Bledsoe	99	(29)
Chapter 6 CITIZENSHIP ON TRIAL: NADIA'S CASE
Unni Wikan	128	(17)
PART II CULTURAL ACCOMMODATION AND ITS LIMITS	145	(124)
Chapter 7 ACCOMMODATION AND COHERENCE: IN SEARCH OF A GENERAL THEORY FOR ADJUDICATING CLAIMS OF FAITH, CONSCIENCE, AND CULTURE
Arthur N. Eisenberg	147	(18)
Chapter 8 THE FREE EXERCISE OF CULTURE: SOME DOUBTS AND DISTINCTIONS
Lawrence G. Sager	165	(12)
Chapter 9 THE CULTURE OF PROPERTY
Nomi Stolzenberg	177	(17)
Chapter 10 IN DEFENSE OF CULTURE IN THE COURTROOM
Alison Dundes Renteln	194	(22)
Chapter 11 "WHAT ABOUT FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION?" AND WHY UNDERSTANDING CULTURE MATTERS IN THE FIRST PLACE
Richard A. Shweder	216	(36)
Chapter 12 ABOUT WOMEN, ABOUT CULTURE: ABOUT THEM, ABOUT US
Martha Minow	252	(17)
PART III THE UNIVERSAL HUMAN RIGHTS DEBATE: MOBILIZATION AND RESISTANCE	269	(94)
Chapter 13 BETWEEN NATIONALISM AND FEMINISM: INDIGENOUS WOMEN, COMMUNITY, AND STATE
Maivân Clech Lâm	271	(17)
Chapter 14 NEITHER VICTIM NOR REBEL: FEMINISM AND THE MORALITY OF GENDER AND FAMILY LIFE IN A HINDU TEMPLE TOWN
Usha Menon	288	(21)
Chapter 15 CIRCUMCISION DEBATES AND ASYLUM CASES: INTERSECTING ARENAS, CONTESTED VALUES, AND TANGLED WEBS
Corinne A. Kratz	309	(1690)
Chapter 16 FROM SKEPTICISM TO EMBRACE: HUMAN RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION FROM 1947 TO	1999
Karen Engle	344	(19)
PART IV CONCEPTIONS OF DIFFERENCE AND THE DIFFERENCES THEY MAKE	363	(110)
Chapter 17 CULTURAL MODELS OF DIVERSITY IN AMERICA: THE PSYCHOLOGY OF DIFFERENCE AND INCLUSION
Victoria C. Plaut	365	(31)
Chapter 18 THE MICROPOLITICS OF IDENTITY-DIFFERENCE: RECOGNITION AND ACCOMMODATION IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Austin Sarat	396	(21)
Chapter 19 PLURAL SOCIETY AND INTERETHNIC RELATIONS IN GUINEA-BISSAU
Joanna Davidson	417	(15)
Chapter 20 FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND FREEDOM OF SILENCE: AN ANALYSIS OF TALKING AS A CULTURAL PRACTICE
Heejung S. Kim and Hazel Rose Markus	432	(21)
Chapter 21 COLOR BLINDNESS AS A BARRIER TO INCLUSION: ASSIMILATION AND NONIMMIGRANT MINORITIES
Hazel Rose Markus, Claude M. Steele, and Dorothy M. Steele	453	(20)
INDEX	473