Abstract
Character of Danger is the third and final volume of the Cornell Stirling County Study. Parts of this volume which deal specifically with the distribution of psychiatric symptoms in relation to sociocultural factors are reviewed. A progress report by A. BENOIST and her coworkers on their research regarding the frequency of depression in French Canadians as compared with Anglo- Canadians follows. Difference in the connotation of the term 'depression' between the two subcultural groups were noted. ANTROBUS and BLOOM fail to confirm on examination of Japanese Americans in Hawaii, Caudill's finding in Japan of a greater frequency of schizophrenia in eldest sons as compared with their siblings (see Caudill, Transcultural Psychiatric Research I5, 20; also Rin, pp. 24-27 in the current issue). GERARD reports on the snake handling cult as it is practiced in Scrabble Creek, West Virginia.
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