Patterns of Culture - Hardcover

Benedict, Ruth Fulton

 
9780395074053: Patterns of Culture

Synopsis

Analysis of 3 strongly contrasting primitive civilizations showing how behavior is influenced by custom and tradition

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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.

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