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Bradfield has pointed out that little is known of the relationship between grammatical forms and the "values and attitudes associated with economic activity." This paper reports on a current research project which is exploring the relationship between possession and transitivity and property‐based societies. The author posits an evolutionary sequence of possessive verb development similar to the evolutionary development of color terms shown in the work of Berlin and Kay. [language and culture, cultural evolution, ethnolinguistics (semantics), possession (grammatical), cross‐cultural study]

Food is one of the most basic resources which the land, aided by man, can bring forth. The purpose of this paper is to analyze the effectiveness and viability of Brazil's food resources as reflected in the actual process of supplying food to consuming centers. In other words, how efficiently is man utilizing his food resource base? Is enough food being produced? And, equally important, is there adequate means for getting the food to the consumer?