VI.
VH.
VHI.
THE NORTHWEST COAST OF AMERICA
A sea-coast civilization—The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island
— Typical Dionysians—Cannibal Society—At the opposite
pole from the Pueblos—The economic contest—A parody
on our own society—Self-glorification—Shaming one’s
guests—Potlatch exchanges—Heights of bravado—Investing
in a bride—Prerogatives through marriage, murder, and re-
ligion—Shamanism—Fear of ridicule—Death, the para-
mount affront—The gamut of emotions.
THE NATURE OF SOCIETY
Integration and assimilation—Conflict of inharmonious ele-
ments—Our own complex society—The organism v. the in-
dividual— The cultural v. the biological interpretation —
Applying the lesson of primitive tribes—No fixed "types" —
Significance of diffusion and cultural configuration Social
values—Need for self-appraisal.
THE INDIVIDUAL AND THE PATTERN OF CULTURE
Society and individual not antagonistic but interdependent—
Ready adaptation to a pattern—Reactions to frustration—
Striking cases of maladjustment—Acceptance of homo-
sexuals—Trance and catalepsy as means to authority—The
place of the "misfit" in society—Possibilities of tolerance—
Extreme representatives of a cultural type: Puritan divines
and successful modern egoists—Social relativity a doctrine
of hope, not despair.
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