INTERPAKS, Analyzes data from samples of cultivators in 84 agrarian communities in Andhra Pradesh, India. Finds little support for Cancian's theory that rank inhibits risk-taking. Considers the possibility that the status-trial relationships varied systematically across communities, with mixed results. While there were lower zero-order correlations between status and trial for cultivators in high resource, low inequality communities, analysis of interactions between community characteristics and individual level measures was not particularly informative.
