# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-shweder
# Generated: 2026-08-14T01:00:09.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-shweder"
name: "Richard Shweder"
slug: "richard-shweder"
description: "Richard Allan Shweder is an American cultural anthropologist and a figure in cultural psychology. He is currently Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. He is the author of Thinking Through Cultures: Expeditions in Cultural Psychology (1991) and Why Do Men Barbecue? Recipes for Cultural Psychology (2003)."
tagline: "American anthropologist"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "US"
category:
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profileType:
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1945-02-17"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.01458
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  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump