Reviews for Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict

The average rating for Cultural Contestation in Ethnic Conflict based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-06-19 00:00:00 Anit Shortridge I frequently read books on various fields of science and academia, but it's been a while since I have read a book so poorly written. It is unnecessarily abstract and lacks examples. The whole book reads like a long bibliography, in which the authors essentially mention papers by other psychologists, but without explaining or summarising their findings. It takes energy to decipher their dense prose, and when I look back on the chapter I have read and look at my notes to see what I have learned, it turns out that there was very little content of interest. The book doesn't provide any statistical data, graphs or tangible comparisons about world cultures. They mention studies and books that do, but it would have been much more useful and enjoyable if they had tried to explain and summarise those other studies. It is supposed to be an educational book, but it feels like a book written solely to display the authors' knowledge of other people's work, without making any attempt to make the reader want to check those studies. Very disappointing.

Review # 2 was written on 2009-01-25 00:00:00 David Madden For a course, I had to read this book. And as course material, there is way too much information on each and every page. It does give a good overview of what cross-cultural psychology is, but there is too much in there. It would've been better if they had cut out some details and stuck to the bigger picture.