Part three: “Disorganization,” adaptation, and arterial blood pressureFootnote¹

Research in St. Lucia was supported in part by a grant from the Connecticut Research Foundation, and by a predoctoral fellowship from the University of Connecticut Health Center. I would like to thank Pertti J. Pelto, Kenneth Hadden, and John L. Cutler for their comments on previous drafts of these materials. A previous version of this paper won the student paper competition at the 1978 Annual Meeting of the Southern Anthropological Society.

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