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| List of Illustrations | |
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| List of Boxes | |
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| Timeline | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Who Am I? The Search for the Self | |
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| Identity in America | |
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| Questioning Self-Certainty | |
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| On the Borderline of Psychology and Anthropology | |
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| Outline of the Argument | |
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| Culture and the Individual in Western Philosophy | |
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| The Discovery of the Individual | |
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| The Discovery of the Unified Self | |
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| A Human-Centered Universe: The Renaissance | |
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| Protestantism, Capitalism, and Individualism | |
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| New Paradigms: Montaigne, Hobbes, Descartes, Hume, and Kant | |
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| Authenticity and Its Vicissitudes | |
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| Rousseau and Romanticism | |
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| Human Beings as Maximizers: Utilitarianism | |
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| The German Reaction: Hegel, Schopenhauer, Marx, and Nietzsche | |
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| Reconstructing Social Being: Weber, Durkheim, and Freud | |
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| The Anthropology of Personal Being | |
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| How "Other" Is the Other? | |
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| Testing Perception across Cultures | |
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| Classifications, Complexity, and Intelligence | |
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| Culture, Reason, and Socialization | |
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| Authentic Culture | |
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| The Foundations of Culture and Personality | |
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| The Psychoanalysis of Culture | |
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| Can There Be a Freudian Anthropology? | |
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| Neo-Freudian Approaches: Kardiner, Du Bois, and Erikson | |
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| Freedom and Repression: The Study of National Character | |
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| Quandaries and Alternatives | |
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| The Whitings' Comparative Anthropology | |
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| Culture and Identity: Peirce, G. H. Mead, Hallowell, and Goffman | |
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| The Affirmation of Diversity: Wallace, LeVine, and Spiro | |
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| Creativity and Alterity | |
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| Agency and Action: Turner, Obeyesekere, and Crapanzano | |
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| Interpretation and Critique: Geertz, Shweder, Taussig, and Scheper-Hughes | |
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| The Cultural Body | |
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| Being in Culture | |
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| Problems and Some Solutions | |
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| Dialectics of Self and Other | |
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| Defining the Self | |
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| Sociocentric and Egocentric Selves | |
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| Hegemony, Hybridity, and the Decentered Self | |
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| Hierarchical Categories: Race, Sex, and Caste | |
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| The Thinking Animal | |
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| Thinking about Thinking | |
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| The Evolution of Cognitive Anthropology | |
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| Computers, Consciousness, and Cultural Models | |
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| Feeling and Being | |
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| Conceptualizing the Passions | |
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| Emotion as Embodied Thought | |
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| The Dialectics of Emotion | |
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| Outsiders and Charismatics | |
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| Understanding the Marginalized Individual | |
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| Culture and Insanity | |
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| The Social Structure of Stigma | |
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| Charisma | |
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| Applications | |
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| Love and Culture | |
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| Paths to Selflessness | |
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| Love in History | |
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| Looking for Love | |
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| The Nature of Love | |
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| Being an American | |
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| Distinctions | |
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| American Values | |
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| Wealth and Egalitarianism | |
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| Politics and Community | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |