CONTENTS September, 2001 Publication Date: April, 2002

In my next life...Biology The editor describes the past and future lives of cross-cultural psychologists. Bill Gabrenya		Guidance and Counseling in Malaysia: An Emerging Profession A leader in Malasian counseling psychology discusses the history and development of the field. Abdul Halim Othman		New Books 50 Years of SIP Letter from the President Status of the Indonesia Congress Debbie Best Commentary: Comparing Behaviors Across Nations - Some Suggestions for Levine and Norenzayan Where they went wrong Geert Hofstede £, $, Euro...Making the World Go 'Round Grant funding information Robin Goodwin Conferences IACCP - Indonesia 2002 IACCP - Hungary 2003 IACCP - China 2004 SCCR IAIR IAAP (and other acronyms)
Theory & Method: In the Belly of the Beast: Two Incomplete Theories of Culture and Why They Dominate the Social Sciences (Part 2) Victor presents an analysis of the theoretical and methodological habits of anthropologists and suggests a theory of culture and cultural development that you should know about. Victor de Munck		Language Use in the IACCP Part 3: Teaching It looks like cross-cultural psychology has a problem: if language affects how we can teach and carry on our intellectual activities, then the monolinguisticalism of we Anglophones is bad for science. Bill Gabrenya
About the Cover Photo Contributed by Michelangelo Buonarroti ©1512 An odd one, Michelangelo. So much talent, so much anguish. As da Vinci grew old, he scribbled over and over in his notebooks, “Tell me if anything at all was done... Tell me if anything at all was done...”(1) Michelango’s angst didn’t prevent him from getting his work done, and so we can wonder over some rather spectacular art. This center panel of the Sistine Chapel ceiling fresco is probably the most famous, recognizable, and important image in the Western world, and it is taken as an exquisite creation at the core of the “Western Canon.” But it was the Japanese who ponied up to have it restored. Perhaps we are embarking on a hundreds years of civilizational conflict (OK, or maybe not). Or perhaps the President of my own nation will explode us all in a brilliant flash of blue. In America, we argued energetically, during what we now realize was the Ten Year Interlude, over the place of the Canon in formal education. Now we ask, shall all the Canons withdraw behind civilizational fortifications? Whither the future of all such cultural expressions, and of their sharing?

(1) Bronowski, J. (1961). Leonardo da Vinci. In J. H. Plumb
(Ed.), The Italian Renaissance. New York, NY: American
Heritage Books.