This valuable sourcebook makes available in one volume a sample of important pieces currently scattered in numerous publications. It examines and evaluates the intellectual concerns of anthropology, considering in particular how anthropology can be defined, developed and applied. Each part of the book includes an introductory essays and bibliography. First published in 1969. Contributors include: Leslie A. White, David Kaplan, Max Gluckman, E.E. Evans-Pritchard, Fred Eggan, John Hospers, Lewis White Beck, John C. Harsanyi, Leon J. Goldstein, Melford E. Spiro, John H.M. Be