ABSTRACT
A. Irving Hallowell contributed to virtually all areas of psychological anthropology as it exists today. His range was immense: from mental health to perception and cognition, from projective techniques to behavioral evolution, from the concept of the self to acculturation. A striking feature of Hallowell’s work is that, notwithstanding the breadth of his interests in the area of overlap between anthropology and psychology, the area of overlap remained, throughout his career, only a portion of his contributions to anthropology. Many of the theoretical formulations and much of the literature review that appeared in a series of his important papers during the 1950s and 1960s were already present in his teaching in the mid-1940s. In Hallowell’s evolutionary terms, there too, what is individual, internal, private in other animals, in the presence of systems of external shared symbolization, is turned into raw material for culture-building.
