ABSTRACT
Reprinted from Edward H. Spicer (Ed.), Human Problems in Technological Change: A Casebook (New York: The Russell Sage Foundation, 1952). Lauriston Sharp is Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies and Director of the Thailand Project at Cornell University. His principal field research has been in North Africa, Australia, and Southwest Asia; his major interests are political and applied anthropology, with emphasis on comparative social organization, ideologies, and symbolic systems. He is a co-author of Siamese Rice Village, Handbook on Thailand, and Some Principles of Cultural Change.
