Engaging Cultural Differences: The
Multicultural Challenge in Liberal Democracies
Edited by
Richard A. Shweder, University
of Chicago
Martha Minow, Harvard
University
Hazel R. Markus, Stanford
University
As democracies expand to include peoples of vastly different cultural
backgrounds, the limits of tolerance are being tested as never before. Using
illuminating case studies, this book explores the notion that tolerance ought
to be the beginning of our efforts, not the end, since mere tolerance will not
improve understanding across groups, nor foster shared access to key social
institutions. Engaging Cultural Differences provides a compelling
examination of the challenges of multiculturalism and reveals a deep
understanding of the challenges democracies face as they seek to accommodate
their citizens' diverse beliefs and practices.
Contents
Introduction: Engaging Cultural Differences
Section 1: One Nation, Many Cultures with Liberty and Justice for
All: Contested Practices and Group Status in Liberal Democracies
Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Assimilation but Were Afraid to
Ask
Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber
Rudolph Living with Multi-Culturalism in India: Universalism and
Particularism in Historical Context Katherine Pratt Ewing
Legislating Religious Freedom: Muslim Challenges to the Relationship between
"Church" and "State" in Germany and France
David Chambers Civilizing the
Natives: Marriage in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Jane Maslow Cohen and Caroline
Bledsoe Immigrants, Agency and Allegiance: Some Notes from
Anthropology and from Law
Unni Wikan Citizenship on Trial:
Nadia's Case
Section 2: Cultural Accommodation and Its Limits
Arthur N. Eisenberg
Accommodation and Coherence: In Search of a Unified Theory for Adjudicating
Claims of Faith, Culture and Conscience
Lawrence G. Sager The Free
Exercise of Culture: Some Doubts and Distinctions
Nomi Stolzenberg The Culture of
Property
Alison Dundes Renteln In Defense
of Culture in the Courtroom
Richard A. Shweder What about
"Female Genital Mutilation?": And Why Understanding Culture Matters in the
First Place
Martha Minow About Women, about
Culture: About Them, about Us
Section 3: The Universal Human Rights Debate: Mobilization and
Resistance
Maivan Clech Lam Between
Nationalism and Feminism: Indigenous Women, Community and State
Usha Menon Neither Victim nor
Rebel: Feminism and the Morality of Gender and Family Life in a Hindu Temple
Town
Corinne A. Kratz Circumcision
Debates and Asylum Cases: Intersecting Arenas, Contested Values, and Tangled
Webs
Karen Engle From Skepticism to
Embrace: Human Rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947 to
1999
Section 4: Conceptions of Difference and the Differences They
Make
Victoria Plaut Cultural Models
of Diversity in America: The Psychology of Difference and Inclusion
Austin Sarat The Micropolitics
of Identity/Difference: Recognition, Accommodation and Resistance in Everyday
Life
Joanna Davidson 'Plural' Society
and Inter-ethnic Relations in Guinea-Bissau
Heejung S. Kim and Hazel R.
Markus Freedom of Speech and Freedom of Silence: An Analysis of
Talking as a Cultural Practice
Hazel R. Markus, Claude M. Steele and
Dorothy M. Steele Colorblindness as a Barrier to Inclusion:
Assimilation and Non-Immigrant Minorities
Social Science Research Council
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