Patterns of Culture Author:Ruth Benedict 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 NW American coast - Ruth Benedict first distinguished amon... more »g Apollonian, Dioysian, and Paranoid emphases in culture, and put forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large."« 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.