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Patterns of Culture
Patterns of Culture
Author: Ruth Benedict
Since the thirties the psycholanalysts have looked for many explanations of complex civilized behavior in the tabus and drives of primitive man. Dr. Benedict was one of the first anthropologists to implement these theories with technical data. She visualizes culture as an integrated whole, applying to groups the psychological concepts usually re...  more »
ISBN: 214434
Publication Date: 9/1947
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Pelican Books
Book Type: Paperback
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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.


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