This book is a collection of fifteen papers apparently intended to be used as a textbook. Of its four parts the first contains papers relating to culture and personality in such major areas as Japan and Africa and among the Indians of North America. There is a paper by Alex Inkeles on national character as related to modern political systems and one by the editor on the United States. The second part, Methods and Techniques, is a mélange. It includes papers on the use of projective techniques, biological and cultural factors in mental illness, the role of the dream, and the relationship of anthropology and psychology. Part three, Socialization, Culture and Feedback, is comprised of the following papers: Socialization, Process and Personality; Culture and Socialization; and Kinship and Ways of Life. Part four, Assessment, contains one paper by Spiro, An Overview and Suggested Reorientation, claiming that culture and