Patterns of Culture
Houghton Mifflin (Verlag)
978-0-618-61955-9 (ISBN)
In this fascinating work, the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict compares three societies -- the Zuni of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of Melanesia -- and demonstrates the diversity of behaviors in them.
Benedict's groundbreaking study shows that a unique configuration of traits defines each human culture and she examines the relationship between culture and the individual.
Featuring prefatory remarks by Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Louise Lamphere, this provocative work ultimately explores what it means to be human.
Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) was one of the twentieth century’s foremost anthropologists and helped to shape the discipline in the United States and around the world. Benedict was a student and later a colleague of Franz Boas at Columbia, where she taught from 1924. Margaret Mead was one of her students. Benedict’s contributions to the field of cultural anthropology are often cited today.
Unique and important...Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life.
New York Times
That today the modern world is on such easy terms with the concept of culture...is in very great part due to this book.
Margaret Mead
Benedict's Patterns of Culture is a foundational text in teaching us the value of diversity. Her hope for the future still has resonance in the twenty-first century: that recognition of cultural relativity will create an appreciation for 'the coexisting and equally valid patterns of life which mankind has created for itself from the raw materials of existence.
from the new foreword by Louise Lamphere, past president of the American Anthrolopological Association
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.2006 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Boston, MA |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 141 x 211 mm |
| Gewicht | 318 g |
| Einbandart | kartoniert |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie | |
| Schlagworte | Cultural Studies • Kulturwissenschaften |
| ISBN-10 | 0-618-61955-0 / 0618619550 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-618-61955-9 / 9780618619559 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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