Richard A. Shweder is a cultural anthropologist and author of Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology and Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology; and editor of many books in the areas of cultural psychology, psychological anthropology and comparative human development. He has made contributions to the study of moral psychology in liberal and conservative societies.   His current research examines the scopes and limits of tolerance for cultural diversity in liberal democracies.