INTRODUCTION -- Anthropological traditions: The participants observed -- PART I: ANTHROPOLOGICAL TRADITIONS -- 1. Anthropological traditions: Their relationship as a dialectic -- 2. Anthropological traditions: Their uses and misuses -- 3. Anthropological traditions: Their definition -- 4. Anthropological traditions: Comparative aspects -- PART II: NATIONAL TRADITIONS -- 5. The United States: Racism and progress in the nineteenth century -- 6. Franz Boas: The academic response -- 7. Germany: Interpreting culture traits -- 8. The Soviet Union: The continuity of the great Russian tradition -- 9. Italy: Cultural anthropology reconsidered -- 10. The Netherlands: Structuralism before Lvi-Strauss -- 11. Denmark: All approaches are fruitful -- 12. India: A Western apprentice -- 13. Japan: An Asian reflex -- 14. Great Britain: Functionalism at home. A question of theory -- 15. Great Britain: Functionalism abroad. A theory in question -- PART III: TOWARDS A CRITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY -- 16. The Manchester School in Africa and Israel: A critique -- 17. Latin America: The anthropology of conquest -- 18. Germany: The search for a new ancestor -- 19. Yugoslavia: The practical critique of ideological Marxism -- 20. The United States: The cultural predicament of the anthropologist.