There are many difficulties with the analysis I have proposed, including the possibilities of selective bias in case selection, imposition of an ethnocentric frame of reference on other cultures, nonrepresentativeness bf cases, incomplete ethnographies, and inaccurate labeling of cultural practices. In spite of these potential hazards, this line of analysis seems worth pursuing further, for it sheds an interesting light on the concept of privacy as a social psychological process, not only in relation to cultural phenomena but also in a way that is not readily achieved in traditional social psychological research settings.