OVERVIEW.

The article provides an overview of the articles and topics contained in the October 1977 issue of the journal "Annual Review of Anthropology." Twenty other chapters follow this brief essay. They cover a wide range of subjects, including applied anthropology, archaeology, physical anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, and social anthropology. Of the total chapters, only four are devoted to specific subjects, while the others are broad surveys and exercises in theory. The articles faithfully reflect two of the three major issues that beset the American and related Western people at the present.