Indigenous Psychology

Abstract

In reaction to the blind implantation of Western mainstream psychology, the emergence of the indigenization movement in psychology can be traced to the early days when Wilhelm Wundt (1832-1920) established his first laboratory at Leipzig in 1879. He conducted experiments on consciousness using scientific methods of the so-called physiological psychology, and recognizing the difficulty of linking science to culture, he studied cultural issues with historical methods in his Völkerpsychologie.