The indigenisation of psychology: Birth of a new science or rekindling of an old one?

Recent decades have witnessed recurring crises within, and criticism from o utside, the Euro-Meso-North-American scientific psychological tradition. Th e problems are traceable to the lack of cultural and ecosystemic sensitivit y on the one hand, and an attempt to indiscriminately generalise findings a cross behavioural settings, on the other. Based on the construction of a ne w science, which integrates the behavioural and cultural models, answers ar e offered to the question of what constitutes universal and Idiosyncratic h uman attributes and social behaviours. The indigenisation of psychology in general and Mexican ethnopsychology in particular are offered as examples o f solutions to the stagnation of the ethnocentrically based mainstream.