Patterns of Culture.

Benedict, Ruth:

Published by Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959

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XVI, 290 p. Ein gutes und sauberes Exemplar ohne Anstreichungen, lediglich der Kopfschnitt ist etwas angeschmutzt / A good and clean copy without markings, only the top edge is a little soiled. - CONTENTS A New Preface by Margaret Mead Acknowledgments Introduction by Franz Boas I. The Science of Custom Custom and behaviour The child s inheritance Our false perspective Confusion of local custom with Human Nature Our blindness to other cultures Race-prejudice Man moulded by custom, not instinct Racial purity a delusion Reason for studying primitive peoples. II. The Diversity of Cultures The cup of life The necessity for selection Adolescence and puberty as treated in different societies Peoples who never heard of war Marriage customs Interweaving of cultural traits Guardian spirits and visions Marriage and the Church These associations social, not biologically inevitable. III. The Integration of Culture All standards of behaviour relative Patterning of culture Weakness of most anthropological work The view of the whole Spengler s Decline of the West Faustian and Apollonian man Western civilization too intricate for study A detour via primitive tribes. IV. The Pueblos of New Mexico An unspoiled community Zuni ceremonial Priests and masked gods Medicine societies A strongly socialized culture The middle road Carrying farther the Greek ideal Contrasting customs of the Plains Indians Dionysian frenzies and visions Drugs and alcohol The Zuni s distrust of excess Scorn for power and violence Marriage, death, and mourning Fertility ceremonies Sex symbolism Man s oneness with the universe The typical Apollonian civilization. V. Dobu Where ill-will and treachery are virtues Traditional hostility Trapping the bridegroom The humiliating position of the husband Fierce exclusiveness of ownership Reliance on magic Ritual of the garden Disease-charms and sorcerers Passion for commerce Wabuwabu, a sharp trade practice Death Mutual recriminations among survivors Laughter excluded Prudery A cutthroat struggle. VI. The Northwest Coast of America A sea-coast civilization The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island Typical Dionysians Cannibal Society At the opposite pole from the Pueblos The economic contest A parody on our own society Self-glorification Shaming one s guests Potlatch exchanges Heights of bravado Investing in a bride Prerogatives through marriage, murder, and religion Shamanism Fear of ridicule Death, the paramount affront The gamut of emotions. VIL The Nature of Society Integration and assimilation Conflict of inharmonious elements Our own complex society The organism v. the individual The cultural v. the biological interpretation Applying the lesson of primitive tribes No fixed types Significance of diffusion and cultural configuration Social values Need for self-appraisal. VIII. The Individual and the Pattern of Culture Society and individual not antagonistic but interdependent Ready adaptation to a pattern Reactions to frustration Striking cases of maladjustment Acceptance of homosexuals Trance and catalepsy as means to authority The place of the misfit in society Possibilities of tolerance Extreme representatives of a cultural type: Puritan divines and successful modern egoists Social relativity a doctrine of hope, not despair. References Index. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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• Title: Patterns of Culture.
• Publisher: Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company
• Publication Date: 1959
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback.
• Edition: Eleventh Printing.
• Condition: Gut
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