Introduction: Engaging cultural differences / Richard A. Shweder, Martha Minow, and Hazel Rose Markus -- Everything you ever wanted to know about assimilation but were afraid to ask / Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco -- Living with multiculturalism : universalism and particularism in an Indian historical context / Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph -- Legislating religious freedom : Muslim challenges to the relationship between church and state in Germany and France / Katherine Pratt Ewing -- Civilizing the natives : customary marriage in post-apartheid South Africa / David L. Chambers -- Immigrants, agency, and allegiance : some notes from anthropology and from law / Jane Maslow Cohen and Caroline Bledsoe -- Citizenship on trial : Nadia's case / Unni Wikan -- Accomodation and coherence : in search of a general theory for adjudicating claims of faith, conscience, and culture / Arthur N. Eisenberg -- Free exercise of culture : some doubts and distinctions / Lawrence G. Sager -- Culture of property / Nomi Stolzenberg. In defense of culture in the courtroom / Alison Dundes Renteln -- "What about female genital mutilation?" and why understanding culture matters in the first place / Richard A. Shweder -- About women, about culture : about them, about us / Martha Minow -- Between nationalism and feminism : indigenous women, community, and state / Maivân Clech Lâm -- Neither victim nor rebel : feminism and the morality of gender and family life in a Hindu temple town / Usha Menon -- Circumcision debates and asylum cases : intersecting arenas, contested values, and tangled webs / Corinne A. Kratz --From skepticism to embrace : human rights and the American Anthropological Association from 1947 to 1999 / Karen Engle -- Cultural models of diversity in America : the psychology of difference and inclusion / Victoria C. Plaut -- Micropolitics of identity-difference : recognition and accomodation in everyday life / Austin Sarat -- Plural society and interethnic relations in Guinea-Bissau / Joanna Davidson -- Freedom of speech and freedom of silence : an analysis of talking as a cultural practice / Heejung S. Kim and Hazel Rose Markus --Color blindness as a barrier to inclusion : assimilation and nonimmigrant minorities / Hazel Rose Markus, Claude M. Steele, and Dorothy M. Steele.