ABSTRACT
The purpose of this article is twofold. First, I consider the importance of race in the 50-year history of the Laboratory of Comparative Human Cognition (LCHC) as described in the LCHC Polyphonic Autobiography (LCHC PA). I point to the timeliness of the work of the LCHC and, in particular, to LCHC’s consistent and enduring concern with ecological validity and with the method of ethnographic psychology (or experimental anthropology). In addition, I briefly consider how some contemporary LCHC concepts can help us explore why the category of race has had such a hold across historical time.
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