Process and Pattern in Culture: Essays in Honor of Julian H. Steward

This festschrift commemorates Julian H. Steward. The essays were contributed by former students, colleagues, and other anthropologists whose research or thinking has been influenced by him. There was no preconceived attempt to give the volume any greater sense of unity or to impose upon the contributors any restrictions as to subject matter. On the contrary, each author was urged to write on an anthropological topic of greatest current interest to himself. Many of the essays could be placed just as handily within a division other than the one to which they have arbitrarily been assigned in the book. This kind of interchangeability may reflect, in some measure, the interrelatedness of Steward's contributions to anthropological theory. The broad relevance of all the selections to Steward's work could reflect also the extent to which his interests continue to be reflected in the work of anthropologists influenced by him. It could also reflect a parallelism of theoretical concerns within the profession that stem from the cultural ambience that produced Steward himself. Parallelisms and convergence are aspects of the kind of cultural determinism which has claimed Steward's attention during the many years that he fought a fairly lonely battle to establish the respectability of evolutionism in anthropology. Now that respectability has been achieved--with an almost bandwagon fervor--it is clear that Steward, as much as anyone else in anthropology, was "responsible" for the change. The essays in this collection are at once a vindication of his patience, an evidence of the high status he enjoys among anthropologists, and a testimony to the impact of his unusual creativity on his colleagues.

Table of Contents:
Julian H. Steward: A Contributor to Fact and Theory in Cultural Anthropology; Julian Steward's Writings and the Essays:A post hoc Articulation; 1: The Individual as a Factor in Culture Change; What History Is; Ideology, Social Organization and Economic Development in China: A Living Test of Theories; Seventh Day Adventism in a Mexican Village: A Study in Motivation and Culture Change; A Raindance in Northwest Mexico: The Causal Analysis of an Event 1; 2: Cultural Patterning in Ceremonialism and Art; The Slaughter of a Bull: A Study of Cosmology and Ritual; The Structure of Ritual in the Northwest Amazon; Shamanism and Sorcery Among the Mapuche (Araucanians) of Chile; Santa Claus: Notes on a Collective Representation; Diagram of a Pottery Tradition; 3: Sociocultural Integration: The Structure of Sedentary Communities; Alliance and Descent In Western Pueblo Society; Family Structure of Sixteenth-Century Tepoztlan; From Peasantry to Wage Labor and Residual Peasantry: The Transformation of an Arab Village; 4: Sociocultural Integration: The Impact of National and Worldwide Influences; National Forces and Ecological Adaptations in the Development of Russian Peasant Societies; Currency Problems in Eighteenth Century Jamaica and Gresham’s Law 1; Colonialism and Native Land Tenure: A Case Study in Ordained Accommodation 1; Colonization as a Research Frontier: The Ecuadorian Case 1; Some Value Changes in Modern Mexico; Anthropology and the Age of Discovery; 5: Types of Cultural Complexes and Sociocultural Systems; Diffusion Rates; Archaeological Theory and Ethnological Factm 1; Typology and the Classification of Sociocultural Systems; 6: Cross-Cultural Regularities; Cultural Correlates of the Regulation of Premarital Sex Behavior; More Complex Regularities?