Ecology and Cultural Continuity as Contributing Factors in the Social Organization of the Plains Indians

Reprinted from University of California Publications in American Archaeology and Ethnology, 48(1) (1962): 13–18, 46–49, 52–68. Symmes Chadwick Oliver is Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Texas. His primary research interests are in the nature of culture, cultural ecology, and sociocultural change. He has recently been a participant in the Culture and Ecology in East Africa Project. In addition to various works of fiction, he is the author of The Kamba of Kenya.