Life in the trees: The behavior and social relations of man's closest kin -- Gleaners of the desert: How American Indians lived in a submarginal environment -- The canoe Indians of Tierra del Fuego -- The seal Eskimos: Simplicity through poverty -- The story of the reindeer Lapps -- The Andaman Islanders -- The ancestors walk: The Arunta of central Australia -- The rise of specialists and multiple institutions -- The Kurnai of Gippsland: Food gathering in a rich environment -- The Northern Maidu: Acorns and winter dances in the Sacramento Valley -- Traders of the Trobriands -- The Pygmies of the Ituri Forest -- The mano of liberia -- The complicated lives of desert nomads: The ruwalla bedawin -- The vikings abroad and at home -- Tenochtitlan, the city of sacrifices -- India, from an early Chinese manuscript -- The division of labor in an Indian village -- The Athenian democracy -- The technical skills of the Romans -- Imperial Rome

1. Anthropology