IN APPRECIATION

These essays are dedicated to Robert H. Lowie with pride and
deep affection by his students and colleagues. They appear on the
eve of his retirement, marking the completion of thirty years of

productive and stimulating work as teacher, scholar and administrator
in the University of California's Department of Anthropology. They

also initiate the publications of the Kroeber Anthropological Society,
a society formed by Kroeber's and Lowie's students to provide a medium
of discussion and publication of the results of original thinking and
research and named after the builder and lonig-time leader of anthro-
pological studies on the Berkeley campus of the University.

This publication is in no sense a Festschrift.  Lowie's influence
as a teacher, as a writer on and interpreter of the data, the method
and the theory of anthropology is so wide and so deep that no set

of essays could adequately pay tribute to or evaluate the impress he

makes upon our discipline.  The papers presented here are to be taken
as a token, as symbol of the larger thing which motivated the minds
and hearts of all who have been concerned with the preparation of
this publication. These attitudes and feelings will be shared by

countless others who participate only as readers but who have exper-
ienced intellectual rewards o0 aagbciation with Lowie's mind and
personality.

Theodore D. McCown