ABSTRACT
Reprinted by permission of the publisher from Rosalie H. Wax, Magic, Fate and History: The Changing Ethos of the Vikings, pp. 127-143. Copyright 1969, Coronado Press. Rosalie H. Wax has a continuing interest in cultural history and the transformation of cultural patterns. She has especially devoted herself to studies of ethos and worldview and in addition to the book from which this excerpt has been selected, she has published a number of essays in this field with her husband (Murray L. Wax). Her field researches were conducted in the Japanese-American Relocation Centers and among American Indian communities; these furnish much of the materials for her book on field methods to be published by the University of Chicago Press in 1971.
