Cover Photo Copyright 1998 William K. Gabrenya Jr.

CONTENTS
September, 1998

EDITORIAL

Modernity and the Social Construction of Bad Vibes
Modernity and cruise missiles; oatmeal; don't forget to vote; Walt reveals the real cost of the IACCP logo; "(cross-)cultural".
Bill Gabrenya

Economic Factors: A Comment
Ype expands on his comment at the Millenium Prelude Symposium that economic factors would drive the development of the field.
Ype H. Poortinga

ARTICLES

Obituary: Durganand Sinha
IACCP celebrates the life of one of its founders.
Girishwar Misra

Theory & Method: Historical Footprints of Psychological Activity
An historical approach to the mediation of psychological activity by material and symbolic artifacts.
Mary Gauvain

What Happened? Series Introduction
A new series of short articles that examine the fate of seemingly forgotten interest areas in cross-cultural psychology.
Richard Brislin

Whatever Happened to Cross-Cultural Studies of Attitudes?
Weak theory construction kills another social science research program.
Harry Triandis

IACCP AFFAIRS
An End-of-the-Year Epilogue to IACCP-98
Reflections on the Jubilee Congress by its organizer; information about the Proceedings volume.
Walt Lonner

Minutes of the General Meeting of IACCP
Summary of the General Meeting held during the Jubilee Congress.
James Georgas

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Volunteers Needed for ARTS2000
To be coordinated with the XV IACCP Congress or the XXVII International Congress of Psychology in July, 2000
John G. Adair

Harry and Pola Triandis Doctoral Thesis Award
A new award offered by IACCP, funded by the Harry and Pola Triandis Fund, to encourage high quality predoctoral research.

New Books, Films and Journals

IACCP Announcements

JCCP Complimentary Subscriptions Program

Conferences

About the Cover Photo Contributed by the editor We encounted this young member of the Lahu (or Lisu) hilltribe at their remote village in the mountains north of Chiang Mai, Thailand. The Lahu tribe migrated to Thailand earlier this Century from China and older members speak a Chinese dialect seemingly unrelated to Mandarin or Taiwanese dialects. The Lahu still practice some traditional subsistence customs but appear to be strongly linked to the tourist industry through their production of traditional handicrafts. This village is at the terminus of a tourist elephant ride and becomes a sort of tourist market twice each day as the tourist-laden elephant caravan arrives.