Patterns of culture

Houghton Mifflin

1961

xvi, 290 pages

Sentry edition ; 8

9780395083574

Science of custom Diversity of cultures Integration of culture Pueblos of New Mexico Dobu Northwest coast of America Nature of society Individual and the pattern of culture

For more than a generation this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures -- the Pueblos of New Mexico, the natives of Dobu in Melanesia, and the Indian tribes (chiefly the Kwakiutl) of the Northwest American coast -- Ruth Benedict first distinguished among Apollonian, Dionysian, and Paranoid emphases in culture, and put forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large." -- From publisher's description

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