Review of Cultural Contingencies: Behavior Analytic Perspectives on Cultural Practices by Peter Lamal

Abstract

In this essay, we review Peter Lamal's (1997) text, Cultural Contingencies: Behavior Analytic Perspectives on Cultural Practices, summarizing the chapters and appraising them against the goal of the text. We begin with some professional and disciplinary context, and then review and evaluate the chapters and the text overall. In conclusion we urge that this text, like all others, be evaluated in the context of its purposes, not independently of them.