Patterns of Culture

Ruth Benedict (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

320 Seiten

1973
Houghton Mifflin (Verlag)
978-0-395-07405-3 (ISBN)

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Patterns of Culture

Ruth Benedict

2006

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A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture is an eloquent declaration of the role of culture in shaping human life. 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 ground-breaking 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.

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, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large."

Includes a preface from Margaret Mead.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.5.1973
Vorwort	Margaret Mead
Sprache	englisch
Einbandart	gebunden
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
Schlagworte	Cultural Anthropology • Cultural Studies • Social Anthropology
ISBN-10	0-395-07405-3 / 0395074053
ISBN-13	978-0-395-07405-3 / 9780395074053
Zustand	Neuware