Ruth Benedict

Patterns of Culture (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Originally published in 1935, in this book, Dr Benedict offers an alternative method of anthropological study, maintaining that the aim of the anthropological investigator should be the discovery in the diversity of cultures of the 'configuration' of each.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429620270
• Artikelnr.: 56866085

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The Science of Custom. 2. The Diversity of Cultures. 3. The Integration
of Culture. 4. The Pueblos of New Mexico. 5. Dobu. 6. The North-West Coast
of America. 7. The Nature of Society. 8. The Individual and the Pattern of
Culture.