CONTENTS

June, 1999

 

 

 

Cover Photo Copyright 1999 William K. Gabrenya Jr.

How is Your IACCP Stock Performing?
Rant on lack of exciting discoveries in social science; Witkin-Okonji Award; IACCP Archivist; Earthquake update; IACCP web address; Online Bulletin.
Bill Gabrenya		  

IACCP Affairs

IACCP Announcements

  • Bellingham Congress Proceedings Book
  • Witkin/Okonji Memorial Fund
    Awards

General Announcements

  • Positions in (cross-)cultural
    psychology
  • Cultural Competence in Health
    Care
  • New Journal: Anthropological
    Theory

Conferences

  • IACCP
  • SCCR
  • APA
  • IUPsyS
  • Others...


INFORUM

Murari Prasad Regmi
Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal

Anthony J. Marsella
University of Hawai'i, Honolulu, USA

Letters to the Editor
Geert Hofstede shows that the editor's typographical and copy editing practices are culturally insensitive; Sunita Stewart critiques Sabatier's review of Kagitcibasi's book.
Obituary: Ann Leigh Minturn
July 1, 1928 - October 31. 1999. Leigh was killed in the Egypt Air Flight 990 crash.
William Lambert
Theory & Method: Carriers and The Puzzle of Change
Ali uses the cultural continuity of post-revolutionary Iran to illustrate the concept of "carriers" and the resiliency of cultural traditions.
Fathali M. Moghaddam
What Happened: Whatever Happened to Cognitive Style?
John reviews the history of the cognitive style research program initiated by Hy Witkin and summarizes the lessons learned from his and others' research.
John W. Berry
Theory & Method: An Intercultural Approach in Psychology: Cultural Contact and Identity
Jean introduces the concept of "hybridized cultures" and discusses identity issues that arise in such societies, plus the problems nonhomogeneous cultures pose for cultural research.
Jean S. Phinney

About the Cover Photo

Contributed by the Editor

The "cocacolinization" of the world is well illustrated by this well decked out coke bottle in a city park in Guangzhou city, Guangdong, China. Kekou kele: "can make your mouth happy". Meanwhile, Colonel Sanders serves as gate guardian outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise in downtown Seoul, Korea. (McD: p. 36)