Research Catalog

Title

Relations between cultures / edited by George F. McLean and John Kromkowski.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : The Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, c1991.

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Additional Authors

• McLean, George F.
• Kromkowski, John, 1939-

Description

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

Series Statement

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

Uniform Title

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

Subject

• Cultural pluralism
• Ethnicity
• Nationalism
• Ethnic relations
• Culture conflict
• Consensus (Social sciences)
• Cultural Diversity

Bibliography (note)

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

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 1565180097
• 1565180089 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^91058118^

OCLC

24430527

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library