ABSTRACT
It is obvious that anthropologists have special knowledge and special skills for assisting governments in administering primitive tribes and dependent peoples. Anthropologists began to be employed by the Soil Conversation Service and the Bureau of Agricultural Economics of the Department of Agriculture. British anthropologists held important posts in the Foreign Office, the Admiralty, the British Information Service, the Wartime Social Survey, and in the field. Anthropologists showed that it is almost always more effective in the long run to preserve some continuity in the existing social organization and to work at reorganization from the established base. To anthropologists who had steeped themselves in Japanese literature it was clear that Japanese morality was a situational one. Social anthropologists, in studying whole societies from a detached point of view, have learned ways of watching and listening that enable them to be rather shrewd in determining where pressure should be applied and where it should be relaxed.
