ABSTRACT
Reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association from American Anthropologist, Vol. 67, No. 2, 1965. George M. Foster is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is interested particularly in peasant society, social factors in technological change, public health, and community development. His professional experience includes field work in Mexico and Spain and service as AID adviser in countries such as Zambia, Afghanistan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and the Philippines. He served as President of the American Anthropological Association in 1970. He is the author of Culture and Conquest: America’s Spanish Heritage, Traditional Cultures and the Impact of Technological Change, and Tzintzuntzan: Mexican Peasants in a Changing World.
