ABSTRACT
It is certainly less than a theory in that it offers no hope of deductively predicting what will in any given case happen. What this study has
contributed to building up-and what I think is all that can be done in the study of people and the way they conduct their lives-is a grounded sense of the way things typically work out, a phenomenology of cultural change. The great contribution of anthropology to human knowledge has been the construction of phenomenologies of social forms and cultural possibilities. With the phenomenology of cultural change we have so far been less conspicuously successful. The final task here will therefore be to set out the phenomena which have been identified.
