Includes bibliographical references and index.

Some problems of method in ethnography / M.J. Herskovits -- An ethnographic field method / Sister M.I. Hilger -- The intensive study of small sample communities / E. Colson -- Form, variation, and meaning of a ceremony / D.G. Mandelbaum -- Adventures in culture change / A.R. Holmberg -- On the comparative method in anthropology / E.H. Ackernecht -- The humanities in cultural anthropology by R.F. Spencer -- The problem of universal values / R. Linton -- Archaeological method in the Eastern United States / L.A. Wilford -- A quantitative approach to the morphological typology of language / J.H. Greenberg -- The forgotten side of ethnogeography / O.C. Stewart -- Research methodology in sociol30255ogy : the first half-century / R.V. Bowers -- Critical summary and commentary / A.L. Kroeber -- References (p. 303