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 V. Dosu .. il- Where ill-will and treachery are virtues PR get ity — Trapping the bridegroom — The humilia ng oR of the husband -— Fierce exclusiveness of ownership Trt liance on magic — Ritual of the garden — Disease-char a and sorcerers — Passion for commerce — Wabuwabu, : sharp trade practice — Death — Mutual Jeethmloptions among survivors — Laughter excluded — Prudery — A cu throat struggle. VI. Tae NortHwEsT COAST OF AMERICA A sea-coast civilization — The Kwakiutl of Sansa 2s land — Typical Dionysians — Cannibal Society — t the : he Pueblos — The economic contest opposite pole from : lorification — Sham. A parody on our own society — Self-glori ro hts of b ing one’s guests — Potlatch exchanges — Heights of bra. vado — Investing in a bride — Prerogatives through mar- riage, murder, and religion — Shamanism — Fear of ridicule — Death, the paramount affront — The gamut of emotions. VII. Tue Nature or Sociery Integration and assimilation — Conflict of inharmonious elements — Our own complex society — The organism v, the individual — The cultural v. the biological interpreta- tion — Applying the lesson of primitive tribes — No fixed ‘types’ — Significance of diffusion and cultural configura- tion — Social values — Need for self-appraisal. VIII. THe INDIVIDUAL AND THE Parrery or Currurs Society and individual not antagonistic but interdependent Ready adaptation to a pattern — Reactions to frustration Striking cases of maladjustment — Acceptance of homo- sexuals — Trance and catalepsy as means to authority — The place of the ‘misfit’ in society — Possibilities of tolerance — Extreme representatives of a cultural type: Puritan divines and successful modern egoists — Social relativity a doctrine of hope, not despair. 1° > 3 REFERENCES [INDEX 2979 187 ALY

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