Theory and Strategy in the Study of Culture Adaptability

Reprinted from American Anthropologist, 67 (1965): 402–07. Walter Goldschmidt is Professor of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles. In addition to the research described in the accompanying paper, Goldschmidt has studied California Indian groups and modern American communities. He is author of Man’s Way and Comparative Functionalism, both theoretical treatises, and of a number of other works, including his most recent book, Sebei Law.