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, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large." Includes a preface from Margaret Mead.
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.