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Steve wondered aloud at lunch about what Japanese psychology might look like if Japanese researchers had developed their own version of this discipline, without first importing Western concepts, interests, and emphases.
Joseph Henrich • The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous
A. T. Ariyaratane, a Buddhist elder, who is considered to be the Gandhi of Sri Lanka.
Jack Kornfield • Bringing Home the Dharma: Awakening Right Where You Are
“The wise man doesn’t give the right answers, he poses the right questions.” —Claude Lévi-Strauss
Gillian Tett • Anthro-Vision
Geertz (1973) argues that the Enlightenment view of human nature placed such an overbearing emphasis on universal characteristics that it relegated the differential effects of culture to secondary status.
Gary B. Walls • Just a moment...
- Sahlins (1972), p. 37. 21. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/04/the-exchange-david-plotz.html.
Cacilda Jetha • Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships
“Japan is a society of groups, not individuals.”
Howard Bloom • The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History
perhaps, Ötzi suiting Pinker’s argument.
David Graeber • The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity
De Waal zieht aus seinen Studien den Schluss: Die menschliche Moral ist »fest in den sozialen Emotionen unserer Vorfahren verankert«.