Consists of articles reprinted from Practical anthropology, 1953-1960.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Includes bibliographical references.

Anthropological study and missionary scholarship / William A. Smalley -- Mariology in Latin America / Eugene A. Nida -- The transformation of God and the conversion of man / William D. Reyburn -- The Roman Catholic, communist, and Protestant approach to social structure : The relationship of social structure to the problems of evangelism in Latin America / Eugene A. Nida -- Mushroom ritual versus Christianity / Eunice Pike, Florence Cowan -- Gbeya prescientific attitudes and Christianity / William J. Samarin -- Vocabulary and the preaching of the Gospel / William A. Smalley -- Polygamy, economy, and Christianity in the eastern Cameroun : Kaka kinship, sex, and adultery / William D. Reyburn -- A Franco-african cross-cultural clash / Robert C. Blaschke -- Drunkenness in indigenous religious rites / Eugene A. Nida -- Planting the church in a disintegrating society / Lois Sorensen, William A. Smalley -- The moral implications of social structure / Paul Abrecht, William A. Smalley -- Conversion and culture change / Dale W. Kietzman --

A culturally relevant witness / John Beekman -- The role of language in contemporary Africa / Eugene A. Nida -- Cultural implications of an indigenous church : What are indigenous churches like? / William A. Smalley -- Conflicts and contradictions in African Christianity : Motivations for Christianity: an African conversation : Meaning and restructuring: a cultural process : The spiritual, the material, and the western reaction in Africa / William D. Reyburn -- The Christian concept of forgiveness and Anang morality / John C. Messenger -- Political systems and African church polity / Mahlon M. Hess -- The church, male and female / William D. Reyburn -- Individualism and the Huichol church / Joseph E. Grimes, Barbara Grimes -- The Gospel and the cultures of Laos / William A. Smalley -- The Meo - an incipient church / G. Linwood Barney -- Are we really monotheists? / Eugene A. Nida -- Pagan and indian concepts in a Mexican indian culture / William L. Wonderly -- Minimizing religious syncretism among the Chols / John Beekman --

The world is too much with us : The world is too much with us- II : Respect and ethnocentrism / William A. Smalley -- The missionary and the evaluation of culture : The missionary and cultural diffusion / William D. Reyburn -- The missionary's role in culture change / Dale W. Kietzman, William A. Smalley -- The missionary role in "marriage palavers" / Ann Beardslee, Eugene A. Nida -- Some questions about missionary medicine / William A. Smalley -- How do I adjust to giving? / Albert Buckwalter, Joseph E. Grimes, William D. Reyburn -- Proximity or neighborlines? / William A. Smalley -- The role of cultural anthropology in Christian missions / Eugene A. Nida -- Social anthropology, Christian missions, and the indians of Latin America / William L. Wonderly -- Acculturation survey of the Dansalan junior college / David L. Hamm, Batua A. Macaraya -- Applied anthropology among the Sierra Quechua of Ecuador / Marie Fetzer Reyburn -- Don't learn that language! / William D. Reyburn -- Ethnographic questions for Christian missionaries / Joseph E. Grimes -- Making and keeping anthropological field notes / William A. Smalley.