Social change
"Social change and the individual." His fieldwork in Serenje,Zambia, during the early 1960. is a prime example of anthropology moving away from a major concern with kinship and static societies to applying ethnographic methods widely in the study of social change. Kinship remains a concern, but it is kinship in action. The interaction between urban and rural sectors is a major theme, The case of the visit of Pati the townsman encompasses these themes very well. The story moves further away from kinship in attention for the Jehovah’s witnesses where the church becomes a source of social stability apart from kinship