Patterns of Culture Author:Ruth Benedict This fascinating picture of life among primitive peoples opens our eyes to the character of our own civilization. By showing that human cultures represent a whole range of integrated patterns of behavior that shape our action in almost everything we think and do, the author sweeps aside a mass of prejudice and puts in a new light the dilemma of ... more »the individual and of society.« less
Introduction to the field of cultural anthropology with analyses of three sharply contrasting cultures in the Pueblos of New Mexico, the Kwakiutl and other tribes of the American Northwest, and the Dobu of Melanesia.