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This book reports not only on the various major international trends and methodologies in Anthropology, like the initial British tradition of studying tribes and castes in their colonies for the purposes of better colonial administration, the American tradition of village studies : Levy-Strauss' Functional, Structural Principle, etc., but also on particular national and regional styles of anthropology and situations peculiar to various countries.It reflects upon the major trends in the genesis and development of Anthropology as a science through these congresses, particularly the amalgamation of the two main trends of internationalization and parochialization which has greatly contributed to the tremendous growth of anthropology and made it possible to hold its Xth Congress in a developing country.