ABSTRACT
The years between 1930 and the early 1940s were especially important for the development of anthropology in the United States. This was a time of intellectual fervor and, in relation to the previous decades, unparalleled growth. Dur ing this period, the subject matter and methods of anthropology in the United States were reoriented and the discipline was revitalized as a profession. The intellectual outlines of post-World War I I anthropology in the United States formed in the concerns and experiences o f anthropologists work ing d u r i n g this t ime. Eggan (1968:134) characterizes this as the start of the "modern per iod" of anthropology in the United States. To some degree, today's anthropological discussions still reflect these developments.
