Cultures without Culturalism: The Making of Scientific KnowledgeCultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previous and still widely held theories of scientific knowledge and practices as universal. The editors caution, however, against the temptation to overgeneralize the work of culture, and to lapse into a kind of essentialism that flattens the range and variety of scientific work. The book refers to this tendency as culturalism. The contributors