Full text: Patterns of culture

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. 
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