Patterns of CultureHoughton Mifflin, 1959 - 290 pagina's For more than a generation this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures -- the Pueblos of New Mexico, the natives of Dobu in Melanesia, and the Indian tribes (chiefly the Kwakiutl) of the Northwest American coast -- Ruth Benedict first distinguished among Apollonian, Dionysian, and Paranoid emphases in culture, and put forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large." -- From publisher's description. |
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THE DIVERSITY OF CULTURES | 21 |
THE INTEGRATION OF CULTURE | 45 |
THE PUEBLOS OF NEW MEXICO | 57 |
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adolescence American anthropology Apollonian attitude berdache biological blankets blessing Boas body boys Cannibal canoe ceremonial charms chief child clan configurations copper cult culture custom dance danger dead death Dionysian Dobu Dobuan economic exchange exorcism experience fact Fast Runner father father-in-law feast fire forms garden gave gift girls give Hopi household husband important incantations Indians individual initiation institutions kachina killed kiva Kula Kula ring Kwakiutl living magic man's marriage masked gods matrilineal matter means Monitor Lizard motivations mourning nature never Northwest Coast occasion one's pattern person peyote possessions possible potlatch prayer-sticks prerogatives priests primitive privileges puberty Pueblos recognized religion religious rites ritual rival rôle sacred scalp shaman shame situation social sorcery spirit spouse supernatural supernatural power susu tabu techniques tion traits tree tribes Trobriands valuable values village vision warfare wealth Western civilization wife woman women yams Zuñi