Patterns of Culture

Ruth Benedict

ISBN 10: 0395083575 / ISBN 13: 9780395083574

Published by Houghton Mifflin Company, 1973

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Patterns of Culture

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

Publication Date: 1973

Binding: Soft cover

Condition: Good

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Synopsis:

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

About the Author:

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.