Spiro offers an evaluation of the work of A. I. Hallowell to whom this volume is dedicated. Spiro gives a brief account of Hallowell's intellectual development and reviews some of his major works. He mentions the influence of Edward Sapir in directing Hallowell toward psychoanalysis as a conceptual tool for relating culture and psychology. Hallowell became both an advocate of certain aspects of psychoanalytic theory and a critic of others. His use of the Rorschach in fieldwork represented an attempt to uncover personality dynamics in individuals, as well as an attempt to delineate the cultural context for those dynamics. Finally, Spiro notes Hallowell's pioneering work on the concept of the self and compares it with more recent psychoanalytic theorizing.