Excerpt from Social Change in Latin America Today: Its Implications for United States Policy

How can social anthropologists, who have made great strides in the past generation in broadening our under standing of cultural patterns and social forces, best con tribute to the essential fund of our knowledge of new processes of social and political change? And how can political analysts and policy-makers best draw upon the anthropologists' accumulated findings and fresh insights? The Council's project on Social Change in Latin America was undertaken, in some part, to serve as a case study in the interaction of anthropological research and political science and, in larger part, to fill a gap in the tool kit with which North Americans approach the crucial problems of us. Relations with the peoples of Latin America.

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