Patterns of culture

Benedict, Ruth; Mead, Margaret

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Document type:: Book

Collection:: POP - Possession, Ownership, Property

Title:: Patterns of culture

Author:: Benedict, Ruth

Editor:: Mead, Margaret

Publisher:: Houghton Mifflin

Place of publication:: Boston, Mass. [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1959

Language:: English

Subject:: Puebloindianer Kultur Kwakiutl Bevölkerung Naturvolk

Note:: Literaturverz. S. [279] - [286]

Topic:: D - Anthropology, ethnology, material culture

Shelfmark:: D/B463

Access:: Physisches Exemplar Sondersammlung POP

CONTENTS A New PREFACE BY MARGARET MEeap ACKNOWLEDGMENTS [NTRODUCTION BY Franz Boas I. Tue Science or Custom Custom and behaviour — The child's inheritance — Our false perspective — Confusion of local custom with ‘Human Nature’ -— Qur blindness to other cultures ~ Race-prejudice _ Man moulded by custom, not instinct — ‘Racial purity” a delusion — Reason for studying primitive peoples. [I. Tue 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 ‘nevitable. (II. Tue 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 détour via primitive tribes. [V. Tue Puesros or New MEexIco An unspoiled community — Zufi 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 Zufii'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. 11)

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