Patterns of culture

Benedict, Ruth

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Werks-URN (URL):: https://digi.evifa.de/viewer/resolver?urn=urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-d-6472736

URN:: urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-d-6472736

Persistenter Identifier:: BV045453616

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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Titel:: I. The Science of Custom

Sammlung:: Allgemeiner Bestand

EEE EZ The Science of Custom ANTHROPOLOGY is the study of human beings as creatures of society. It fastens its attention upon those physical characteristics and industrial techniques, those conven- tions and values, which distinguish one community from all others that belong to a different tradition. The distinguishing mark of anthropology among the . social sciences is that it includes for serious study other societies than our own. For its purposes any social regula- tion of mating and reproduction is as significant as our own, though it may be that of the Sea Dyaks, and have no possiblé historical relation to that of our civilization. To the anthropologist, our customs and those of a New Guinea tribe.are two possible social schemes for dealing with a common problem, and in so far as he remains an anthro- pologist he is bound to avoid any weighting of one in favour of the other. He is interested in human behaviour, not as it is shaped by one tradition, our own, but as it has been shaped by any tradition whatsoever. He is interested in the great gamut of custom that is found in various cultures, and his object is to understand the way in which these cultures change and differentiate, the different forms through which they express themselves, and the manner in which the customs of any peoples function in the lives of the individuals who compose them. Now custom has not been commonly regarded as a sub- ject of any great moment. The inner workings of our own brains we feel to be uniquely worthy of investigation, but custom, we have a way of thinking, is behaviour at its most commonplace. As a matter of fact, it is the other way around. Traditional custom, taken the world over, is 1

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