Patterns of culture

Benedict, Ruth

Patterns of culture

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Strukturtyp:: Monographie

Werks-URN (URL):: https://digi.evifa.de/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-712358

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-712358

Persistenter Identifier:: BV045453616

Titel:: Patterns of culture

Untertitel:: an analysis of our social structure as related to primitive civilizations

Autor:: Benedict, Ruth

Erscheinungsort:: New York

Verlag:: The New American Library

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1953

Signatur:: A 139 (SA)

Sammlung:: Allgemeiner Bestand

Wissensgebiet:: Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie > Soziale Organisation und Praxis

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Sammlung:: Allgemeiner Bestand

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION I. II. III. IV. THE SCIENCE OF CUSTOM Custom and behaviour—The child’s inheritance—Our false perspective—Confusion of local custom with “Human Na- ture"—Our blindness to other cultures—Race-prejudice— Man moulded by custom, not instinct—'Racial purity” a delusion—Reason for studying primitive peoples. THe Diversity OF CULTURES The cup of life—The necessity for selection—Adolescence and puberty as treated in different societies—Peoples who never heard of war—Marriage customs—Interweaving of cultural traits—Guardian spirits and visions—Marriage and the Church—These associations social, not biologically in- evitable. THE INTEGRATION OF CULTURE All standards of behaviour relative—patterning of culture —Weakness of most anthropological work—The view of the whole—Spengler's "Decline of the West'"—-Faustian and Apollonian man— Western civilization too intricate for study—A détour via primitive tribes. THE PUEBLOS OF NEW MEXICO An unspoiled community—Zufi ceremonial— Priests and masked gods—Medicine societies—A strongly socialized cul- ture— "The middle road”’—Carrying farther the Greek ideal —Contrasting customs of the Plains Indians—Dionysian frenzies and visions—Drugs and alcohol—The Zuiii’s dis- trust of excess—Scorn for power and violence—Marriage, death, and mourning—Fertility ceremonies—Sex symbolism —"“Man’s oneness with the universe”—The typical Apol- lonian civilization. . Dou Where ill-will and treachery are virtues—Traditional hos- tility—Trapping the bridegroom—The humiliating position of the husband—Fierce exclusiveness of ownership—Reli- ance on magic—Ritual of the garden—Disease-charms and sorcery—Passion for commerce—Wabuwabu, a sharp trade practice—Death—Mutual recriminations among survivors— Laughter excluded—Prudery—A Cut-throat struggle. xiii 19 41 52 120

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