ABSTRACT
Analysis of the relations between cultural forms and social formations, which is the principal aim of social anthropology, has been formulated largely in terms of correlations. We often juxtapose the cultural and the social and say the two are causally related. But two processes may operate epiphenomenally, without any necessary causal connection between them. To establish such a connection it is essential to find how the two variables in question here-which differ so fundamentally in many respects-affect each other.
