Why Indigenous Psychology? A Review Article

Indigenous Psychology is an emerging field in psychology (Kim et al., 2006, p.3). It has received great attention in the last 30 years with a number of articles and books been dedicated to the topic.  Any discussion on this topic is often surrounded by a dialogue on cultural psychology and cross-cultural psychology.  The primary aim of this paper is to understand the purpose behind the origin and development of indigenous psychologies that has been seen in various parts of the world and view it in light of cultural psychology.