ABSTRACT
Reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association from American Anthropologist, Vol. 66, No. 4, 1964. Edgar V. Winans is Professor of Anthropology and Chairman of the department, University of Washington. His principal research interest is social and economic change in developing nations. He has done fieldwork in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda on problems of human ecology, political and economic organization, and development planning. His publications include Shambala: The Constitution of a Traditional State. Robert B. Edgerton is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles, jointly in the Department of Anthropology and the Department of Psychiatry. His major field research has included work among East African tribes, the Menomini Indians, Mexican-Americans and part-Hawaiians. His principal publications include The Cloak of Competence, Drunken Comportment (with C. McAndrew), Changing Perspectives in Mental Illness (with S. Plog), and The Individual in Cultural Adaptation.
