Note: Discussion of how to solve the problem of recording what is important in documenting a culture in a limited amount of time. Alan Lomax suggests cataloging most frequent daily activities. Male female role differentiation. Not necessary to have everything. Cultures consist of few very frequent behaviors and adjustments. Vectors shaping interaction, classify everybody, more prevalent in some cultures, sporadic in others. Perhaps partially genetic. Power/energy Complexity Smoothness/prolongation (slow prolonged sustained effort - control) Simple, repetitive action For example: In the Pacific everyone does the simple repetitive up and down thing| there is power and energy in Africa| complexity in Asia Arensberg's complaint about the lack of broad context in Margaret Mead's film about training babies in Bali -- the courtyard scene was part of huge complicated system within hierarchy of behavior. Aim of Canto/Choreometrics is to get down to social essences. Dance as public communication between culture and itself, very redundant and tailored to what everybody agrees on. Birdwhistell placed great emphasis on the significance of audience behavior, missed in many of the films in the Lomax material. But Cantometrics yields a taxonomy. They watch and comment on dance samples. Dance is the most redundant of all human behavior. Need to understand culture before can interpret dance.