83 Biographical Notes on Contributors Amy Goldfarb is originally from Baltimore, but her family now lives in Sunnyvale. She is a junior - now transferred to Stanford - who hopes to continue in clinical psychology after graduation. Her paper on sex-role socialization developed out of a political sci- ence class on feminism and a contact with a local nur- sery school provided by her anthropology teaching assistant. Jeff Howard is an architecture student specializing in graphic design. The cover will be included in his fel- lowship project, Flush Times: Images of a Post-Urban Culture, which is a series of silkscreens of American images based on Los Angeles landscapes. Barbara LeMaster, a junior at Berkeley, is originally from Kentucky and lived in the Midwest before her family came to California. She got interested in prob- lems of the deaf while a student at Cal State/Hayward, where she learned deaf language. She has worked with deaf people for about two years now - as a tutor and interpreter at Hayward, Ohlone College, and the California School for the Deaf. Sue Lyon is a junior from Tiburon majoring in de- velopment studies and economics. She is spending this academic year in study abroad at the University of Vienna and the London School of Economics. Linda Miller is a junior from Fullerton with an indi- vidual major in "the individual and society." She has a special interest in institutions such as prisons and men- tal hospitals. She is currently finishing a proposal to study adult autism at Napa State Hospital. Jim Nail is a sophomore whose interest in cultural differences arises in part from an Austrian mother and an American father and having lived primarily in Germany until three years ago. His current principal fields are languages and religion. Maria Protti is a sophomore sociology major from San Francisco and Orinda. She had had little contact with her own elderly relatives and discovered that she had few role models for "what to be after I am fifty." Because of her sense of isolation and a realization that in America a great gap exists in our own appreciation of the conditions of aging, she decided to focus on the treatment of the elderly in convalescent hospitals. Candy Reynolds is a sophomore from Baldwin Park currently considering a major in social welfare. Her interest in relations among ethnic groups comes partly from having attended a high school that was primarily Chicano. Janelle Sumida is a senior from Palo Alto about to graduate in biopsychology, after which she plans to work in experimental psychology research, which she finds combines her interests in social and natural sci- ences. Alice Sung is a sophomore majoring in architecture and involved as well in the expressive arts. In her fieldwork, she hoped, by discovering and analyzing others' perspectives on marriage, to work out her own strong ideas on the subject, and she enjoyed most the individual interviews in which she and her informants discussed and often affected each other's views. Tracy Williams is a senior in anthropology, having recently transferred from UC/Santa Cruz. Her choice of topic stemmed from her friendship with her grandmother who had long worked in retirement homes and now was facing the decision of whether to enter one herself. Tracy wanted to come to terms with what old age means in American society and hopes to continue her work as an honors thesis topic. BACK ISSUES Back issues of the Papers, Numbers 1-29, may be obtained from: Johnson Reprint Corporation 111 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10003 A list of available subsequent numbers may be requested directly from the Society. EDITORIAL BOARD OF THE KROEBER ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY Noel T. Boaz Randall J. Thompkins Anne Chambers Steven Wegner Cheryl Crawley Rosemary Zumwalt Teresa J. Paris OFFICERS OF THE KROEBER ANTHROPOLOGICAL SOCIETY Teresa j. Paris Steven Wegner Kathy Phillips The AInInual Meeting of the Kroeber Anthropological Society will be held May 7,1 977,in Berkeley, California. Co-organizers are Teresa J. Paris and N.T. Boaz. Although the articles in this volume were written for publication in 1977, this number of the Kroeber Atnthropologiadl Societ)y Papers is technically the issue for Sprinlg and Fall, 1974.