Includes bibliographical references.

Food taboos, diet, and hunting strategy: the adaptation to animals in Amazon cultural ecology with ca comment -- Eric Barry Ross

Anthropological contributions to the food and agriculture organization

An anthropological approach to socioeconomic factors of development: the case of Zaïre -- Gérard Ciparisse

Population, production, and culture in the plains societies of northern Cameroon and Chad: the anthropologist in development projects with ca comment -- I. de Garine

Natural selection and morphological variability: the case of Europe from neolithic to modern times with ca comment -- Maciej Henneberg, Janusz Piontek, and Jan Strzałko

The metaphor as a mediator between semantic and analogic modes of thought with CA✩ comment -- Brenda E. F. Beck

Social norms, the self, and sociobiology: building on the ideas of A. L. Hallowell with CA✩ comment -- Jerome H. Barkow

A meeting of minds: a Soviet and western dialogue -- Tamara Dragadze

Guidelines for holocultural research -- Ronald P. Rohner, Raoul Naroll, Herbert Barry III, William T. Divale, Edwin E. Erickson, James M. Schaefer, and Richard G. Sipes

Rural-urban migration and urbanization in Latin America -- Luise Margolies

Symposium on action research -- Elias Sevilla-Casas

Pastoral production and society -- Claude Lefébure

Human adaptability in northeast India -- R. K. Kar

The value of the human -- John R. MacCormack and Paul A. Erickson

Child-holding patterns -- Ralph Bolton

Nonutilitarian activities in the lower Paleolithic: a look at the two kinds of evidence -- Stephen W. Edwards

Deducing an "empirical" hypothesis -- John B. Gatewood

Polythematic expansion: remarks on Needham's polythetic classification -- Richard Paul Chaney

Research conclusions

Diagnosis of a fragment of the "hominid molar” from Přezletice, Czechoslovakia -- Emanuel Vlček

Archaeological explorations of the Siwa Oasis region, Egypt -- Fekri A. Hassan

Recent archaeological survey in western Zambia -- Joseph O. Vogel

The cave of Verdelpino (Cuenca, Spain) -- J. A. Moure Romanillo and M. Fernández-Miranda

Bone fluorine as a measure of relative chronology at Piprahwa -- S. B. Lal

The nature of deference -- Robert J. Maxwell and Philip Silverman

Games and the values of athletes in United States culture -- Robert L. Munroe and Mary Conroy

Discussion and criticism

On australopithecine sexual dimorphism -- Richard Scaglion

On canine reduction in early hominids -- William L. Jungers

On criticisms of "some Paleolithic tools from northeast north America" -- Bruce E. Raemsch, William W. Vernon and George F. Carter

On responsible scholarship on culture contact in the Mackenzie basin -- June Helm

On theory in archaeology: a response -- L. S. Klejn

Further comment on Klejn's "theoretical archaeology" -- J. K. Brüggemann

Once more Neanderthal speech -- H. K. J. Cowan

On morgan's kinship theory reply: Raoul Makarius -- Herbert Landar and Y. I. Semenov

On culture and economic systems -- Serghei Arutiunov and Henri J. M. Claessen

On anthropology in Italy -- Marcello Carmagnani

On magical thinking -- L. H. Abrahamian

More on the primitive norm -- I. L. Andreyev and S. Ya. Serov

More on middle Mississippian social organization -- A. M. Khazanov, Michael J. O'Brien and Allison C. Paulsen

On the presence of the negro in the Nile valley -- John H. Robertson and Rebecca J. Bradley

More on anthropology in Belize -- Mary T. Dailey

More on primitive human pigmentation -- R. K. Gulati

On Price's presentation of data from Tikal -- William A. Haviland

On the distancing of emotion in ritual -- L. H. Abrahamian

On art criticism and anthropology -- S. Arutiunov, Helda Bullotta Barracco and Malcolm F. Farmer

On the concept of being primitive -- Kenneth L. Beals

On anthropological studies in the American south -- Choong Soon Kim and H. Tromp

Still more on symbolic interpretation -- Gerard F. Kennedy

More on Nias and the state -- Peter T. Suzuki

On theoretical models of natural selection -- Abhimanyu Sharma

in English.