Richard Shweder

Anthropologist, Author

1945 –

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Who is Richard Shweder?

Richard Allan Shweder is an American cultural anthropologist and a figure in cultural psychology. He is currently Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago.

He is the author of Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology and Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology.

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Born
Feb 17, 1945
New York
Also known as
  • Richard A. Shweder
  • Richard Allan Shweder
Nationality
  • United States of America
Profession
Education
  • PhD, Harvard University
    Social anthropology
    ( - 1972)
  • University of Pittsburgh
Employment
  • University of Chicago
Lived in
  • Chicago
    (1973 - )

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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