The individual in cultural adaptation : a study of four East African peoples / by Robert B. Edgerton ; with an introduction and epilogue by Walter Goldschmidt

Berkeley : University of California Press, 1971. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 351 pp.: illustrations ; 24 cm. Contents; Introduction by Walter Goldschmidt -- 1. Procedures and methods: collection and coding of the data -- The decision to measure -- Constructing the interview battery -- Preparing the initial interview battery -- Pretesting -- The final interview battery -- The interviewing process -- Coding the data -- A review of the data -- 2. An introduction to the tribes -- The Hehe -- The Kamba -- The Pokot -- The Sebrei -- 3. An observer's impressions of life among pastoralists and farmers -- Hehe farmers -- He he Pastoralists -- Kamba farmers -- Kamba pastoralists -- Pokot farmers -- Pokot pastoralists -- Sebei farmers -- Sebei pastoralists -- 4. Cultural distinctiveness: the unique and characteristic responses of each tribe -- The findings -- Comparing the Bantu and Kalenjin tribes -- 5. The relationship of the respondents' age and sex to the response pattern -- The influence of age -- The influence of sex -- 6. The problem of European acculturation -- The relationship of European acculturation to the response pattern -- 7. Initial pastoral-farming comparisons -- The findings -- 8. The Rorschach findings -- Some findings common to all tribes -- A quantitative comparison of pastoralists farmers -- Qualitative analysis -- 9. A multivariate analysis -- The variability of the responses -- Multivariate analysis -- Smallest space analysis -- A factor analysis -- Acculturation reviewed -- 10. The environment: a search for some sources of ecological differentiation -- The research -- Selection and measurement of varibales -- Reviewing the interview variables -- The search for sources -- 11. Conclusion -- Problems in the study of cultural change -- Ecology and the individual. Subjects; Ethnology Africa, East. Human geography. Social change. Acculturation. Anthropology. Tribal society.