The Analysis of Culture.

This article focuses on the book "History, Psychology and Culture," by Alexander Goldenweiser. This book contains papers in the form of volume. Their significance for an understanding of the development of anthropological theory in the United States is of the first order; the influence they have exerted on the course of social thought in this country and in Europe far transcends that of the usual contributions to the periodical literature of a science. Not only did the consistently high quality of these discussions call attention to them when they were first published, but, ever since, social scientists have been going to them to read their incisive, clean-cut observations and analyses, and to gain from them ideas for exploring new lines of thought.