informants, the use of life histories, participant observation, and the like. It merely means that as anthropologists venture into areas which seem less amenable to conventional methods, other techniques must be tried and perhaps adopted. In the area of field methods appropriateness is undoubtedly one of the basic criteria. The use of some adaptation of survey methods might enable anthropologists to follow Kluckhohn's suggestion of some years back: If we are to deal with any problem (such as that of the acquisition of culture by individuals) in a way which is reducible to actual human behaviors, generalizations must be given a quantitative basis.' In this paper a survey is defined as a structured type of social investigation in which preferably a representative sample of respondents are asked a series of questions which are usually embodied in a written schedule or questionnaire. A questionnaire may consist of merely a few factual items or it may be a complicated form involving a battery of questions concerning both attitudes and behavior. LOCATION OF THE RESEARCH