The Little Community
Abstract
determinations particularly those concerning blood pressure and pulse pressure, there may arise a more scientific procedure that would make comparative evaluations of great CliniCal importance. TEMPLEFAY,M. D.,Pa.Philadelphia,Tun Lnms(ChicagoCOMMUNITY.of a HumanViewpoints for the Study Whole. By Robert Redfleld. : University of Chicago Press, i55.Price : $.oo.)This excellent little book is the published version of a series of lectures which Redfield gave at the University of Uppsala in i95. It is an assembling and assorting of his ideas relating to the small community which he has been generating, digesting, or testing during his years of anthropologicalresearch.To anyone working in community research, or various research fields dealing with activities which take place in small communities (economics, sociology, anthropology, social psychiatry, etc.) the book is thought provoking, for familiar items from the realm of anthropological concepts are here examined from a unitary point of view and brought into a relationship with each other. I suppose not many psychiatrists would find The Little Cosntnunity very relevant to their everyday concerns since so many are in large rather than small communities and so few take much account of the sociological aspects of their patientsâ lives. However, any who have a curiosity about some of