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W. Penn Handwerker , a professor of anthropology at the University of Connecticut, USA trained as a general anthropologist with an emphasis on the intersection of biological and cultural anthropology, has published in all five fields of anthropology (applied, archaeological, biological, cultural, and linguistic). He has done field research in West Africa, the West Indies, the Russia, and various regions of the United States. He developed new methods for studying cultures while doing research on human fertility, entrepreneurship, corruption, and both inter- and intra-generational power differences. His current research focuses on the possibility that the most effective collective action for community sustainability must be consistent with the cultural assumption that each person knows what's best for him or herself.

• Chapter 1 Introduction Still Looking After All These Years ~ 150 Years! Drives You Crazy; Part I On Cultures; Chapter 1a Cultures Originate in Intelligent Minds; Chapter 2 Cultures Establish Moral Orders; Chapter 3 Morally Ordered Behavior Gives Cultures Agency; Chapter 4 Living Requires Many Cultures, Thriving Requires They Be Well-Designed; Part II On the Properties of mind that Produce Agency; Chapter 5 Coercive Force Yields Morally Ordered Behavior; Chapter 6 Cognitive Coercion May Kill You Before You Get Anywhere; Chapter 7 Intelligence Makes for Disturbing Irony; Chapter 9 Lessons Learned Cultures Aren't Merely Curiosities, and How 'œOthers' Think and Act;