ABSTRACT
Point Four, technical aid, and the facts of “economic cooperation” have added a new and somewhat urgent dimension to the old anthropological interest in the phenomena of acculturation and culture change. A number of anthropologists have shifted from the largely theoretical examination of the conditions and consequences of culture contact to endeavors of a programmatic and practical nature. This is not to say, of course, that applied anthropology is itself brand new or that Mr. Truman is the putative father of even the American variety. But it is apparent that the recent efforts of this country and of the United Nations to introduce radical changes in underdeveloped areas through technical assistance, health, education and a host of other programs have involved even greater numbers of anthropologists than were utilized by the British and others in their colonial activities over the past few decades.
