ABSTRACT
Reprinted from the Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 82, No. 324, pp. 112-21, 1969. John F. Szwed is Director of the Center for Urban Ethnography at the University of Pennsylvania. His research experience has included field work among Anglo-French peasants in Newfoundland and Afro-Americans in Trinidad and North America. His publications include Black America (1970) and Afro-American Anthropology: Contemporary Perspectives (1970, co-edited with Norman E. Whitten, Jr.).
