(1906-1983) spent much of a distinguished career in anthropology teaching and writing about American Indians. In terms of a lifelong conviction that "one goes to ordinary people for cultural essentials, " Spicer learned about Indian peoples by living among them, residing at various times in two different Yaqui villages: old Pascua in Tucson, Arizona, and Potám in Sonora, Mexico. The present volume, first in a renowned series of village studies, offers the pioneer discussion of ritual kinship, a focal point for modern anthropologists' thinking about social organization. Spicer, who joined the University of Arizona faculty in 1946, became editor of the American Anthropologist and president of the American Anthropological Association. Author of nine books and countless essays and articles, Spicer was perhaps best known for Cycles of Conquest (1962) and The Yaquis: A Cultural History (1980), both published by the University of Arizona Press.

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