Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. McLean, George F.
2. Kromkowski, John, 1939-

Description

1. x, 396 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Series statement

1. Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series I, Culture and values ; v. 4

Uniform title

1. Cultural heritage and contemporary change. Series I, Culture and values v. 4.

Subject

1. Cultural pluralism
2. Ethnicity
3. Nationalism
4. Ethnic relations
5. Culture conflict
6. Consensus (Social sciences)
7. Cultural Diversity

Contents

1. Meeting of cultures: meeting of peoples -- Person, community and culture -- The philosophy of Gikuyu proverbs and other sayings, with particular reference to ethics -- Cultural pluralism and development: the ethnic situation of Guatemalan youth -- The development of ethnic consciousness in the United States: new directions in research and policy -- The nature of culture and human nature -- Social harmony and personal fulfillment: an analysis of traditional Chinese culture -- Language and national unity: the Philippine experience -- National unity and ethnic identity: the Russian experience -- The royal commentaries of the Incas -- Cultural identity and modernity in Africa: a case for a new philosophy -- Consensus in African interest-group conflict: democratiztion and socializtion of labor -- Self-knowledge, self-identity and cooperation between peoples -- Universalism as the meaning of recent history: developments in the marxist theory of formation -- The universe of human thought -- Two dimensions of culture -- Learning to participate: humanistic and pragmatic education for a multi-cultural community, polity, and world -- Mystical texts as an entry into the cross-cultural study of religion.

Owning institution

1. Harvard Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-381) and index.

Processing action (note)

1. committed to retain