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After twenty years as founder and editor of the Annual Review of Anthropology (ARA) I have been requested by the Editorial Committee to ponder the developments in the several subfields of anthropology over this period of time, as reflected in the topics selected for review in this enterprise. Where I feel some competence to do so, I shall offer a critique of where we have come from and where we might be going. Before entering into the fray, I will provide some history of the ARA and a brief account of my background, both of which affect the structure and the content of these volumes. I am pleased to report that the new editor is William Durham, a distinguished biological anthropologist whose research interests lie in the interface between biological and cultural evolution.

A review of a selection of anthrop'al studies concerned with substantive problems & processes of soc & cultural change, roughly between the yrs 1964-1968. This article updates a similar review of res in this fieldd published several yrs ago (see SA 0715/C2077). Despite the considerable volume of work, no major comprehensive new theories of change have emerged in this period. Nevertheless, several important contributions to problems of special concern, including models of change, are worthy of attention. During this time, we also encounter a substantial body of literature that concerns itself with complex societies, their characterization & modes of analysis. A representative set of these items is included, partly under the heading 'Complex Societies,' partly under the heading 'Urbanization and Urban-Rural Relations,' & partly under 'Migration, Enclavement, and Associations.' These labels suggest the major substantive thrusts of published work in this domain. Perhaps the most important single gain in these yrs has been an increasingly systematic application of evolutionary theory &, here & there, of sophisticated methodology to the problems of soc & cultural change. In the future, we might hope to achieve better relations between 'mission-oriented' res (devoted to short-range applied goals) & basic or longrange res goals. Modified Author's Summary.

A systematic view of developments in the studies of soc & cultural change roughly between 1960 & 1965. An important part of the analysis is concerned with 4 major works that have appeared during this period by Everett Hagan (see SA 0715/ A9599), Leonard Doob (see SA 0715/B6015), Charles Erasmus (MAN TAKES CONTROL, Minneapolis: U of Minnesota Press, 1961), & Ward Goodenough (COOPERATION IN CHANGE, Russell Sage Foundation, 1963). Much of the conceptual advances as well as the shortcomings of work in the field are revealed in these 4 books. The remainder of the nearly 100 items included in this review are org'ed under the following subheadings: Ur'ization & Change; Stability & Cultural Change; Migration, Enclavement & Identity; Technological Change & Development; Acculturation Studies; & Vales & Change. Part of the problem in conceiving culture change or dynamics as a specific domain for investigation can be seen to derive from the extraordinary range of substantive concerns which it embraces & the range of psychol'al, sociol'al & cultural theory by which it must be informed. AA.