Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Thoughts toward a History of the Interwar Years -- I. The Twenties -- American Culture and the Northwest Coast -- Review of A. R. Brown, The Andaman Islanders: A Study in Social Anthropology (Cambridge: The University Press, 1922). -- Diffusion as a Criterion of Age -- Miwok Lineages and the Political Unit in Aboriginal California -- The Origin of the Skidi Pawnee Sacrifice to the Morning Star -- Review of Franz Boas, Primitive Art (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1927). -- Review of Roland B. Dixon, The Building of Cultures (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1928). -- Problems Arising from the Cultural Position of the Havasupai -- II. Innovations -- Review of Robert Redfield, Tepoztlan: A Mexican Village (Chicago: University of Chicago Press: Publications in Anthropology, Ethnological Series, 1930). -- Configurations of Culture in North America -- The Science of Culture -- More Comprehensive Field Methods -- Culture Changes in Yucatan -- Some Empirical Aspects of Northern Saulteaux Religion -- Kinship Terminologies in California -- Kinship and History -- Memorandum for the Study of Acculturation -- Historical Changes in the Choctaw Kinship System -- Review of Fred Eggan, ed., Social Organization of North American Tribes: Essays in Social Organization, Law, and Religion (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1937). -- III. Sub-Disciplines -- The Plains Culture Area in the Light of Archaeology -- An Outline of the Problem of Man's Antiquity in North America -- The Comparative Linguistics of Uto-Aztecan -- Internal Linguistic Evidence Suggestive of the Northern Origin of the Navaho -- On Being Unhistorical -- A Method for Phonetic Accuracy and Speed -- Blood Group Determinations of Prehistoric American Indians -- Fossil Man and the Origin of Races -- IV. Reconsiderations.

Review of Robert H. Lowie, The Crow Indians (New York: Farrar and Rinehart, 1935). -- The Dual Organizations of the Ramko'kamekra (Canella) of Northern Brazil -- Linguistic Distributions and Political Groups of the Great Basin Shoshoneans -- A Problem in Kinship Terminology -- Review of Abram Kardiner, The Individual and His Society -- the Psychodynamics of Primitive Social Organization (New York: Columbia University Press, 1939). -- Some Comments on the Study of Cultural Contact -- Acquired Drives in Culture Contact -- Covert Culture and Administrative Problems -- On the Concept of Culture and Some Cultural Fallacies -- Socialization, Personality, and the Structure of Pueblo Society (with Particular Reference to Hopi and Zuni) -- V. Applications -- American Anthropological Association Resolution on Racial Theories -- Applied Anthropology and Its Relationship to Anthropology.