My intention in this essay is to present to a psychoanalytic readership some important books in the field of anthropology that exemplify the kind of research Nancy Chodorow advocates with her newly coined term individuology. Chodorow has long argued for placing psychoanalysis in an interdisciplinary context, specifically one that stresses the importance of the cultural context of clinical theory and practice. While many analysts have long taken an interest in the humanities and the arts, and more recently in neuroscience, Chodorow urges us to focus as well on the adjacent social sciences, sociology and particularly cultural anthropology. In a time when psychoanalysts are taking more and more interest in seeing psychoanalysis in its social and political dimensions, Chodorow's book, together with the three ethnographic monographs under review here, make valuable contributions to furthering and enriching that endeavor.