The summary account I have offered of Rosaldo's book falls short, of course, of portraying the vibrant and extensive range of its insights. He has quilted to get her a remarkable array of contemporary social theories in ways that rescue them from academic obscurity and make them available for wider discussions and varied appropriations. In doing so, he has raised the political and ethicals takes of cultural studies, locating the question of culture on the terrain of other struggles over the future direction of American education. Herein lies what I take to be the significance of the book's title. Unlike Matthew Arnold's stark and reductive opposition of "culture" to "anarchy," the "truth" of culture in Rosaldo's writings lies less in its "civilizing" and normalizing effects than in its capacity to bring to bear on our lives what Adrienne Rich calls an" increasing complexity.