This landmark volume by two distinguished social scientist-a cultural anthropologist and an experimental psychologist-examines child training practices in a world-wide sample of seventy five primitive societies and places our own child training in this board human perspective. It describes the effect of child training practices upon the developing personality and the effects personality characteristics established in childhood have upon the same people when they group up. The authors' methods and insights provide an important contribution to our understanding of human behavior and the interaction of personality an culture.