In Parts Three and Four and in one section of Part Five of the Manual, all
members of the project have been referred to by code symbol (cf. Introduction
pages for details of this procedure). Throughout the Manual all editorial in-
sertions -- as contrasted to those in the original materials -- are indicated by
brackets.

In the preparation of the Manual special thanks are due to Ruth Bunzel and
to Natalie Joffe, who generously put at our disposal their detailed knowledge of
the research materials in the files of Columbia University Research in Contem-
porary Cultures and thereby lightened the task of making selections, and to
Barbara Harris, Claire Jacobson, Mary Keller, and Leila Lee, who worked un-
tiringly over the details of this volume in its various stages of preparation.
Thanks are due also to Bella Weitzner of the American Museum of Natural
History for the details of departmental hospitality.

Thanks are due to the following publishers, authors, and copyright holders
for the privilege of reproducing the materials indicated: American Imago, for
"Trends in Affectlessness," by Nathan Leites, which is reproduced it its en-
tirety; Chanticleer Press, New York, for passages by Geoffrey Gorer from
The People of Great Russia, by Geoffrey Gorer and John Rickman: Institute
for Intercultural Studies, New York, for selections from "An Analysis of the
Nazi Film Hitlerjunge Quex," by Gregory Bateson, and from "Rumanian Cul-
ture and Behavior" and "Thai Culture and Behavior," both by Ruth Benedict; In-
stitute for Religious and Social Studies, New York, for selections from "A Case
History in Cross-National Communications," by Margaret Mead, which ap-
peared in The Communication of Ideas, edited by Lyman Bryson; W. W. Norton
and Co., New York, for a passage by Gregory Bateson from Communication
The Social Matrix of Psychiatry, by Jurgen Ruesch and Gregory Bateson;
Rorschach Research Exchange and Journal of Projective Techniques for a
portion of "Some Aspects of Personality of Chinese as Revealed by the Rors-
chach Test," by Theordora M. Abel and Francis L. K. Hsu; Society for the
Psychological Study of Social Issues, for a selection from "Morale and Nation-
al Character," by Gregory Bateson, which appeared in National Morale, edited
by Goodwin Watson; The New York Academy of Sciences, for passages from
"Cultural and Thematic Analysis of Fictional Films," by Gregory Bateson, and
from "Themes in Japanese Culture," by Geoffrey Gorer, both of which ap-
peared in the Transactions, Series 2. "The Soviet Image of Corruption," by
Martha Wolfenstein, is based on work done for the Center for International
Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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