Modern An Introduction Consulting Editor: Anthony F. C. Wallace, University of Pennsylvania Modern Cultural Anthropology An Introduction Philip K. Bock The University of New Mexico Alfred • A • Knopf, New York \, This is a Borzoi Book Published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. First Printing Copyright © 1969 by Philip K. Bock. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Distributed by Random House, Inc., New York. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 69-12895 Manufactured in the United States of America Acknowledgments are gratefully extended to the following authors and publishers for their kind permission to quote from copyrighted works: The Clarendon Press for excerpts from The Nuer by E. E. Evans-Pritchard. E. P. Dutton and Company and Associated Book Publishers Ltd. for excerpts from Habitat, Economy and Society by C. Daryll Forde. Dutton Paperback Edition (1963). Holt, Rinehart and Winston for excerpts from Knowing the Gururumba by Philip L. New¬ man. Copyright © 1965 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, Inc. Houghton Mifflin Company for excerpts from The Chrysanthemum and the Sword by Ruth Benedict. Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. for excerpts from Economic Anthropology by Melville J. Herskovits. Northwestern University Press for excerpts from Dahomean Narrative by M. J. Herskovits and F. Herskovits. To My Parents Eugene and Clara Bock and To The Memory of My Teachers Robert Redfield and Clyde Kluckhohn