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ABSTRACT. Cultural and psychological theories of witchcraft are related in order to develop a more comprehensive theory.The proposed integrative schema is applied to witchcraft among the Aivilik Eskimos. Using a theoretical approach, continuities in pre-with post-contact witchcraft are related to Eskimo "cultural personality." Changes are shown to be more illusory than real, and when real, to be related to new social and cultural circumstances in which the continuing personality pattern must operate.RÉSUMÉ. Quelques observations sur la sorcellerie : le cas des Esquimaux Aivilik.L'auteur met en relation les théories culturelles et psychologiques sur la sorcellerie, dans le but de développer une théorie plus complète. I1 applique le schème flinté-gration qu'il propose à la sorcellerie chez les Esquimaux Aivilik. Par une approche théorique, il relie les continuités de la sorcellerie avant et après le contact à la "personnalité culturelle" esquimaude. I1 montre que les changements sont plus illusoires que réels ; lorsqu'ils sont réels, ils dépendent de nouvelles circonstances sociales et culturelles dans lesquelles le modèle continu de personnalité doit fonctionner.

ABSTRAm. It is proposed that the basic tactics used by members of a distinct ethnic group to overcome alcohol abuse will be in part determined by culturally accepted methods of social control. These methods themselves will be based in large part upon the modal psychodynamic organization of members of that group. In the case presented the Athabascans of interior Alaska tend to overcome alcohol abuse by adhering to fundamentalist Christianity which reflects their need for an external superego; that in the past took the form of a nearly absolute chieftainship. RBSUMÉ. Une technique

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"Sociological" explanations of suicide have not been adequate to explain the varying forms and rates of suicide cross-culturally. Viewing the interrelationship of child rearing, social structure, and cultural values in light of a theory that stresses the "magical thinking" aspect of suicide offers an alternative explanation for cross-cultural variation.UICIDE HAS BEEN studied cross-cul-