Patterns of Culture Author:Ruth Benedict An analysis of Zuni (New Mexico), Kwakiutl (Vancouver), and Dobus (Melanesia) civilizations. "However, the moral that Dr. Benedict points is that these cultures evince clinical deviations from our norm, abnormality in any culture is simply the failure of the individual to adopt social valued drives -- that cultures (our own included) cannot be ... more »compared on an ethical basis, but simply as coexisting and equally valid patterns of life.« 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.