ABSTRACT
Reprinted from the Anthropological Quarterly, Vol. 30: 4, pp. 111-124, 1957, by permission of the author and the Anthropological Quarterly. Most of Thomas Gladwins professional work to date was at the National Institute of Mental Health, where his interests moved from personality to cognition and he became increasingly concerned with problems of poverty and race. His two most recent books, Poverty, U.S.A. and East is a Big Bird: Navigation and Logic on Puluwat Atoll, reflect these interests, the latter offering perspective from Micronesia on thinking processes in undereducated Americans. He is currently working on a comparative study of postrevolutionary development in several countries.
