Despite Uruapan middle-class resistance to the transformations of the last twenty years, real changes in areas like acceptance of married women in the workplace, sharing domestic labor, fertility control, and equality between spouses in family decision making have begun to appear. 5B6 The Insights behind fuzzy set theory are summarized and related to research on categorization. The concept of fuzziness is evaluated relative to the demands of an essentially cross-cultural, phenomenological enterprise. The potential power of these concepts for understanding both the symbol-experience relationship in rituals and other cultural phenomena and i nformant reports of experience is emphasized. The concept of fuzziness is applied to esoteric concepts, categories, and symbols in systems of contemplation.
Contemplation based upon Buddhist categories of consciousness is given as an example.
It is determined that submarginal env ironments are nonviable because it is inpossible to meet both economic and social needs within the constraints imposed by extremely impoverished ecosystems. Brent Berlin . Reviewed by Cecile H. Brown, Nort hern Illinois University.