General Editor's Preface -- Introduction -- PART ONE: TIME AND SPACE -- Patterns of European History -- Ethnological Cartography and Atlases -- Peasant Cultures of West and East -- PART TWO: CULTURE AND SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- The Relationship Between the System of Kinship Relations and the System of Customs -- Mating in French Preindustrial Rural Areas -- Changing Perceptions of Roles as Husbands and Wives in Five Yugoslav Villages -- Kinship and Politics in a Village of Lorraine: The Impossible Democracy -- The Rumanian Household from the Eighteenth to the Early Twentieth Century -- Situational Signs and Social Attentiveness: The Conception of Reality Among a Group of Sicilian Illiterates -- Business Structure in a Turkish City -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.