So are Hollywood executives. Nepotism occurs fairly frequently in the film industry. Among, the Maori, too, kinship is important. The relationship between producer and writer in Hollywood is like that of man and wife. This is an inversion of primitive animism.
Primitives divine the future by examining the entrails of chickens or the gall bladders of pigs.
In Hollywood polls are used for this purpose. All these, and more, the author reels off in dead-pan. And it is the anthropologist who commits more solecisms than a college professor should. If the anthropologist has her fetishes, literary style does not seem to be among them. When Miss Powdermaker stops pretending that she is an anthropologist and begins to express her personal opinions, her remarks assume some cogency.