Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

Language does not stand still. Surprisingly, despite this knowledge, most speakers are fearful of change.

Despite the theories traditionally taught in high-school social studies, the truth is: the more primitive the society, the more leisured its way of life.

Letters to the editors of English and American newspapers often contain expressions of horror about the new terms that creep into the language, and these expressions are usually accompanied by dire predictions about ruination of the mother tongue.

Marriage is simply an economic necessity, and so there are no elaborate courtship displays or marriage celebrations among the Eskimo.

The environment does not determine man's culture; it merely sets the outer limits and at the same time offers opportunities.

An inability to communicate has little to do with international friction-as is seen in the special ferocity of wars fought between people who speak the same language.