ABSTRACT
The relevance of social structure to problems of welfare is not as immediate and direct in Hanuabada as in some other societies. The reason for this is that most of the men are wage-earners who do not nowadays depend upon co-operation and organization for production and distribution. The traditional field, where social relationships are still important, is now narrowed to a field of minor welfare importance. Thus, traditional dancing is carried on only by a minority, and agriculture, as we shall see, now has little more significance than has household gardening in a European suburb. Nevertheless, there are some possibilities for the growth of co-operative village activities, and thus there is still a chance that the traditional social structure will come to play a more significant part in productive relationships. Thus, this chapter, which describes social relationships in a field of minor welfare significance at the moment, has an important therapeutical interest. If it is their intention to improve welfare, the people might with advantage make further use of some of the elements of social structure already described, and might adapt them to the practical needs of the modern world.
