On the Concepts of Structure and Process in Cultural Anthropology1

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American AnthropologistVolume 62, Issue 1 p. 18-33 Free Access On the Concepts of Structure and Process in Cultural Anthropology1 EVON Z. VOGT, EVON Z. VOGT Harvard UniversitySearch for more papers by this author EVON Z. VOGT, EVON Z. VOGT Harvard UniversitySearch for more papers by this author First published: February 1960 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1960.62.1.02a00020Citations: 21 1 This paper has benefited from comments and criticisms by Noel Burleson, Frank Cancian, Benjamin N. Colby, Roy D'Andrade, J. R. Fox, Clifford Geertz, Clyde Kluckhohn, Robert Laughlin, Barbara Metzger, George Spindler, Meredith Treene, and Francesca Wendel. I should also like to express appreciation to the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences where a fellowship during 1956–57 provided the necessary leisure and stimulation for the original draft of this paper. 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