ABSTRACT
The relationships between culture and human behavior have been of interest to scholars for centuries. About 80 years ago anthropology, psychology and psychiatry jointly began to advance the field conceptually and empirically. More recently (from the 1960s) there has been an upsurge in interest, rooted in earlier work, and advanced by a group of scholars who may be identified as Founders. From many perspectives and cultural backgrounds, and engaged in diverse research domains, they established a field (or more accurately, a set of related fields) within which culture-behavior relationships can bestudied and interpreted. The Founders’ symposium brought together many of these Founders on the occasion of the Silver Jubilee of IACCP. The goal of the symposium was to share personal reflections on the origin, changes and current status of the field. Believing that a balanced sense of our recent past is the only sound basis for understanding our present and anticipatingour future, it was hoped that a living history would unfold during this Symposium.
