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The article presents a literature review that discusses the importance of American Indian linguistics. It also presents a summary of the state of description and comparative work for each linguistics family. It presents a classification of American Indian linguistics as well as the role of various language families and the interrelationships among postulated families. Though space limitations have dictated a narrowly linguistic concern in this literature and the ethnographic semantics are omitted, possible wider relationships of the families and classifications were still discussed.

The article explores the validity of the array of strategies and contributing variables useful in demographic studies for anthropology. This literature review discusses the reasons for the increased interest in the development of anthropology, the relation between demography and cultural anthropology, the developments in descriptive demography, the effects of demography on living human populations, and the details of reconstruction of prehistoric and ethnohistoric populations. The authors to this review conclude that the descriptive demographic studies are still worthwhile, and that if the broad array of contributing factors is understood and controlled for, studies of the relationship between particular independent factors and demographic variables can be profitably explored.

The article presents a review of studies in the physical anthropology of the modern man which concerns papers that have appeared in the period from mid-1969 to mid-1971. This literature review aims to show how much activity there is in each major topic of investigation in the biological study of populations of man that exists, and to pick out any trend in investigation that may be detectable. To limit the range of the study, several topics including behavior studies, psychometric investigations, descriptive osteometry, and epidemiological works relating to particular disease states have been excluded.

The article presents a review of several essays by anthropologists that reflected the trends of postwar anthropology with authority and distinction. These essays tackled the trends that include the shift from traditional physical anthropology to human biology, under the influence of modem genetics. Furthermore, this literature review explores the renewed emphasis on culture and culture change, the increasing concern with peasant society and urban life, the revival of psychological and philosophical anthropology, the revolutionary developments in modem linguistics, the shift in our conceptions of social structure, and the continuing search for new and better models.

The article presents an anthropological research on agriculture which begin in the gross differentiation of types, the charting of their global distribution, and their association with evolutionary stages. Anthropology's past neglect of the study of agriculture is basically due to the belief that basic food production is a dull, routine, grubby, and very much a background activity. However, this attitude towards agricultural research has resulted to a poorly organized messages emanating from ecological and economic systems with the relatively more rigid and determinate messages of low information coming from ideological systems like religion, kinship, and politics in the field of agriculture.

The article discusses the basic mathematical concepts that are relevant to anthropology measurements in the U.S. Some of the basic mathematical concepts which are relevant to measurement such as the concept of a distance metric. A good introduction to the theory of scaling distinguishes nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio scales. A nominal scale is simply a categorization, an ordinal scale is a ranking-ordering, an interval scale has a real number measures of distance and a ratio scale is an interval scale with a zero point. The distance metric must satisfy three conditions positivity, symmetry and the triangle inequality.

The article focuses on the aim to select titles that illustrate theoretical and research trends in studies of mythology and folk in the U.S. The terms mythology and folklore are often linked together in both lay and academic discourse. Mythology is an independent study devoted to Greek and Roman myths which had broadened to cover myths of people but had lost its status as a separate branch of learning and become an adjunct to several subdivisions of the humanities and social sciences. The sign of the coming of age of folklore studies is the appearance of historical and biographical explorations.

The article presents the changing styles of anthropological work during wartime in the U.S. There had been enormous growth of institutions devoted to anthropological enterprise as influenced by the immediate post-World War. The article mentions that anthropologists learned that their skills could be applied to problems affecting modern societies and the deliberations of national governments and nation states. Anthropology can take several directions with an increased interest in professional careers that involve professional competence in related fields.

The article presents a literature review that explores the development, methods and aims of ethnohistory. It furthermore explores the relationship between history and anthropology, the description of the historical trend of the relationship, the definition of ethnohistory and the different theories of ethnohistory. In the light of the historical interest in anthropology that has stimulated both anthropologists and historians, this literature aims to clarify the similarities between the two disciplines. On the other hand, the author proposed that ethnohistory might serve as a means for combining the generalizing aspects of ethnology with the careful evaluation of sources and interest in time sequence of history.

The article presents a literature review that discusses the position of structuralism in cultural anthropology. This literature provides a definition of structuralism against the background of other anthropological approaches, as well as a background of cultural anthropology, the theoretical summary of cultural anthropology and the significance of transformational analysis. This review is divided into five chapters of which the first discusses the proposed definition of structuralism as it focuses on the formal cause, the web of relationships between terms related to biological components, their origins, and their actual social functions.

The article presents a literature review exploring the developments and relevance of ethnoscience in 1972. It further incorporates an explanation of the term ethnoscience, a description of the convergence of ethnoscience, and some comments and problems of ethnoscience. This literature also presents a diagram that summarizes the convergence of ethnoscience, generative semantics, computer simulation of semantic information processing, and some aspects of sociolinguistics or the ethnography of speaking.

The article explores the theory underlying the relationship between environment, subsistence, and society, which have been factors of the constant and chief concerns of anthropology. Furthermore, it discusses the role of this relationship in anthropology, the adoption of a holistic approach to a complex system, and the logic of systematic explanations. This literature review also examines the developments which relate to this area including the new methods and techniques that are emerging and the substantive knowledge has been brought forth. The author maintains a close attention to some studies which although focus primarily on subsistence activities, also utilize methodological innovations which promise to aid the more integrated studies.

The article presents a literature review that focuses on the argument that archaeology is in the pre-paradigm stage, but there are indications that the first explicit paradigm is already in the process of being developed. It centers on the discussion of the importance of environment, subsistence and society in the changing archaeological perspective. Furthermore, the literature presents the history of a pre-paradigm, the change in goals, and the criticism of a new paradigm. It also explains the coherent direction of the particular trends of archaeological research involving environment, subsistence, and society, as compared in other areas the archaeological research seems to be directed towards idiosyncratic goals and is a haphazard quilt of patches.