ABSTRACT
Reproduced by permission of the American Anthropological Association from American Anthropologist, Vol. 60, No. 1, 1958. George Spindler is Professor of Anthropology, Stanford University. With Louise Spindler, he has done field work among the Menomini Indians of Wisconsin, the Blood Indians of Alberta, Canada, the Mistassini Cree of Quebec, and in Germany. He has also worked with school teachers and administrators in California schools. He is the author of Sociocultural and Psychological Processes in Menomini Acculturation, Transmission of American Culture, co-author (with Alan Beats and Louise Spindler) of Culture in Process and (with Louise Spindler) o/Dreamers without Power, and editor of Education and Anthropology, Education and Culture, and Being an Anthropologist. From 1963 to 1967, he was editor (with the assistance of Louise Spindler) of the American Anthropologist. Louise Spindler teaches anthropology at Stanford University. Before turning to anthropology, her major interests were in romantic poetry and drama. She has been particularly interested in women’s roles, and witchcraft and culture change. She is the author of Menomini Women and Culture Change. She is co-editor, with George Spindler, of the series Case Studies in Cultural Anthropology, Studies in Anthropological Method, and Case Studies in Education and Culture.
