List of illustrations -- Editors' introduction -- "China to the anthropologist" : Franz Boas, Berthold Laufer, and a road not taken in early American anthropology / A.M. Hocart : reflections on a master ethnologist and his work / Malinowski and the "Native question" / Radcliffe-Brown and "applied anthropology" at Cape Town and Sydney / "The department was in some disarray" : the politics of choosing a successor to S.F. Nadel, 1957 / An elegy for a structuralist legacy : Lévi Strauss, cultural relativism, and the universal capacities of the human mind / Lévi Strauss's approach to systems of classification : categories in Northwest Coast cultures / Lévi Strauss on theoretical thought and universal history / Historical massacres and mythical totalities : reading Marshall Sahlins on two American frontiers / Anthropologists as perpetrators and perpetuators of oral tradition : the lectures of Kenelm O.L. Burridge and Robin Ridington, storytellers / Book reviews -- Contributors.