1 Communicating Across Disciplines: On Integrating Psychological and Ethnographic Approaches to Sibling Research -- History of This Collection -- Epilogue -- I The Relation Between Larger Cultural Goals and Socialization -- 2 Comparing Sibling Relationships Across Cultures -- 3 Trust in the Mandinka Way: The Cultural Context of Sibling Care -- 4 The Role of Sibling Interaction in Child Socialization -- II The Emergence of Cultural Knowledge: Social, Emotional, and Cognitive -- 5 Siblings as Effective Socializing Agents: Evidence from Central Mexico -- 6 Siblings and the Development of Social Understanding in Early Childhood -- 7 Sibling Interaction, Birth Spacing, and Intellectual/Linguistic Development -- III Perceptions of the Sibling Role -- 8 The Child's Perspective of Sibling Caretaking and Its Relevance to Understanding Social-Emotional Functioning and Development -- 9 Children's, Parents', and Observers' Perspectives on Sibling Relationships -- 10 Sisters and Brothers -- Author Index.