The ultimate theoretical and even ethnographic goals of anthropology depend on a mature conception of mental and embodied processes and a fully realized theory of knowledge and enculturation of experience. Anthropology has been in dialogue with allied disciplines, including psychology, philosophy, and linguistics, and many of the greatest anthropologists have made psychological questions part of, if not the key to, their work. Psychological Anthropology for the 21st Century provides a detailed survey of the intimate and enduring relationship between anthropology and psychology. Charting the developments, celebrating the accomplishments, and critiquing the inadequacies of the subdiscipline, Eller aims to communicate the exciting and important achievements in the study of cultural influences and variations in thought, emotion, and experience. Combining history and theory with robust ethnography, Eller clearly lays out the central role that psychological anthropology has played and continues to play in the discipline and should be essential reading for all students new to the study of psychological anthropology