Cultures without CulturalismCultural accounts of scientific ideas and practices have increasingly come to be welcomed as a corrective to previousand still widely heldtheories 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