Patterns of Culture

by Ruth Benedict

Overview

This book was originally published in 1935. For some years past the scientific study of primitive peoples has experimented in a variety of directions for new methods of investigation. Criticism of the comparative method, of which Sir James Frazer is recognized as the foremost exponent all the world over, has been directed mainly against the fragmentary character of its evidence when torn from its context.

In this book Dr Benedict offers an alternative method of approach. The aim of the investigator, she maintains, should be the discovery in the diversity of cultures of the 'configuration' of each - that is the cultural drive in group and individual which determines the characteristic reaction to stimulus in any and every situation in life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429620270
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/23/2019
Series:	Routledge Revivals
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	560 KB

About the Author

Ruth Benedict

Table of Contents

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.