ABSTRACT
Julian H. Steward childhood reflected the sylvan environment, leisurely life and quickening excitements of a community just flowering into a world political and scientific capital. Substantial scientific contributions were achieved by two other papers. "Cultural Causality and Law" was an effective concordance of developmental stages in Old and New World cultures which posed far-reaching questions on the magnitude and mechanisms of parallel evolution. "Levels of Sociocultural Integration" introduced a basic new concept for the construction of analytical social models. Most important has been the new research program on cross-cultural regularities, which has had as its goal the description and analysis of the culturally leveling and differentiating consequences of industrialization and urbanization upon a variety of societies. Despite continuing conflicts with vociferous exponents of cultural egalitarianism, despite the early postwar death of the Institute for Social Anthropology, and despite some painful experiences as an expert witness in Indian claims cases, Steward continued to explore the links between theoretical and applied anthropology.
