News and Notes

Abstract

October, 1958, will see the first issue of a new international quarterly, Comparative Studies in Society and History, to be published by Mouton of The Hague with several American universities as sponsors. The purpose of the journal is to serve as a clearing house for substantive work on problems that are common to any two or more of the numerous branches of study dealing with man's life in society. It will treat any subject that bears on the explanation of stability or change within a social structure, including ways of thought or expression, and it will deal with forms of cultural interchange. It is not the intention of the Editors merely to popularize work that is already well known to specialists. They invite contributions from fresh research in which the problems at issue are clearly formulated. They hope to achieve some testing of the ideas of the theoretical social sciences in regard to longer intervals of time and larger social units than is customary. Comparison, if not drawn within an article, can be attained by setting together articles on comparable material. A board of Consulting Editors has been drawn from a number of universities representative of comparative politics, comparative literature, economics, sociology, anthropology, and various fields of history. Anthropology is represented by Raymond Firth (London), M. Herskovits (Northwestern), A. L. Kroeber, and E. Wolf (Virginia). The Editorial Committee consists of Sylvia L. Thrupp as Editor, G. E. von Grunebaum, Everett C. Hughes, Edward A. Kracke, Jr., Max Rheinstein, Edward Shils and Sol Tax. Correspondence regarding contributions should be directed to the Editor, Box 222, Faculty Exchange, University of Chicago, Chicago 37, Illinois.