Patterns of culture

Benedict, Ruth

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Titel:: Patterns of culture

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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INTRODUCTION 
DURING the present century many new approaches to the 
problems of social anthropology have developed. The old 
method of constructing a history of human culture based 
on bits of evidence, torn out of their natural contacts, and 
collected from all times and all parts of the world, has 
lost much of its hold. It was followed by a period of pains- 
taking attempts at reconstruction of historical connections 
based on studies of distribution of special features and 
supplemented by archæological evidence. Wider and 
wider areas were looked upon from this viewpoint. At- 
tempts were made to establish firm connections between 
various cultural features and these were used to establish 
wider historical connections. The possibility of independ- 
ent development of analogous cultural features which is a 
postulate of a general history of culture has been denied 
or at least consigned to an inconsequential rôle. Both the 
evolutionary method and the analysis of independent 
local cultures were devoted to unraveling the sequences 
of cultural forms. While by means of the former it was 
hoped to build up a unified picture of the history of cul- 
ture and civilization, the adherents of the latter methods, 
at least among its more conservative adherents, saw each 
culture as a single unit and as an individual historical 
problem. 
Under the influence of the intensive analysis of cultures 
the indispensable collection of facts relating to cultural 
forms has received a strong stimulus. The material so 
collected gave us information on social life, as though it 
consisted of strictly separated categories, such as economic 
life, technology, art, social organization, religion, and the

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