Research Catalog

Title

Patterns of culture / Ruth Benedict ; [with a new foreword by Louise Lamphere].

Author

Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.

Publication

Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

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Details

Description

xxiii, 290 p.; 21 cm.

Summary

[An] introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture is [a] declaration of the role of culture in shaping human life. In this ... work … Ruth Benedict compares three societies -- the Zuñi 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 … 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 ... work ... explores what it means to be human.--Back cover.

Subjects

• Dobu (Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée : Île) > Mœurs et coutumes
• Ethnologie > Papouasie-Nouvelle-Guinée > Dobu (Île)
• Kwakiutl (Indiens)
• Zuñi (Indiens)
• Ethnopsychologie
• Dobu Island (Papua New Guinea) > Social life and customs
• Ethnology > Papua New Guinea > Dobu Island
• Kwakiutl Indians
• Zuni Indians
• Ethnopsychology
• Culture

Note

• "A Mariner book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-[286]) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The science of custom -- The diversity of cultures -- The integration of culture -- The Pueblos of New Mexico -- Dobu -- The northwest coast of America -- The nature of society -- The individual and the pattern of culture.

ISBN

• 9780618619559 (pbk.)
• 0618619550 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2006273414

OCLC

• 65165543
• SCSB-10787776

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library