Culture and Personality

gories that seem to us to reflect the most significant trends of this period. These trends are: a fractionation of group character studies from studies of total personality to investigations of more limited components or aspects of personality; an increasing methodological rigor in child-development investigations; the emergence of social psychiatry as a major subject of specialization for anthropologists; a re-focusing of interests in culture change, from slow acculturation processes to processes of rapid culture change, as in revitalization movements and directed development; the beginning of a crystallization of theory in an area that may loosely be called communication and cognition; and the first signs of an interest in the relation of various physiological and biochemical processes to personality and culture. We have not included in the literature cited all publications relevant to the subject of culture and personality, but have tended to restrict ourselves to works by anthropologists or directed to anthropologists that undertake to extend our knowledge of the systematic