Urban Anthropology: The Cross-Cultural Study of Complex Societies.

techniques of cross-cultural comparison and holistic analysis, and the data-collection techniques of intimate ethnographic fieldwork. In the future I think we will be able to look to other major contributions: by archaeologists, physical anthropologists, and anthropological linguists, and in such theoretical fields as cultural evolution, which is de-emphasizing cultural relativity and maintaining that crosscultural comparisons should extend to earlier forms of societies.