Part I. Introduction -- Derek Freeman : Notes Toward an Intellectual Biography / G.N. Appell and T.N. Madan -- Introduction to the Essays / G.N. Appell -- Part II. Theoretical Constructs, Meaning, and the Analysis of Choice Behavior -- Emergent Structuralism: The Design of an Inquiry System to Delineate the Production and Reduction of Social Forms / G.N. Appell -- From Choice to Meaning / George Devereux -- Corpus Morale Collectivum : Social Anthropology Without Tears? / Peter Lawrence -- The Morality of Exchange / D.K. Feil -- Part III. Filial Ambivalence and the Moral Order in Choice Behavior -- Like Father, Like Son : Filial Ambivalence and the Death of Fathers in Kalauna / Michael W. Young -- The Son as Savior : A Hindu View of Choice and Morality / T.N. Madan -- Part IV. The Dialectic Between Destiny and Decision : Nomothetic and Ideographic Conceptions of Anthropology -- The Ethnographer's Choices / Gilbert H. Herdt -- In the Thrown World : Destiny and Decision in the Thought of Traditional Africa / Michael Jackson -- Part V. Biological Givens and Symbol Choice -- The Fetal and Natal Origins of Circumcision and Other Rebirth Symbols / Michael A.H.B. Walter