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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Strukturtyp:: Kapitel

Titel:: II. The DIversity of Cultures

Sammlung:: Allgemeiner Bestand

II The Diversity of Cultures A CHIEF of the Digger Indians, as the Californians call them, talked to me a great deal about the ways of his people in the old days. He was a Christian and a leader among his people in the planting of peaches and apricots on irrigated land, but when he talked of the shamans who had transformed themselves into bears before his eyes in the bear dance, his hands trembled and his voice broke with excitement. It was an incomparable thing, the power his people had had in the old days. He liked best to talk of the desert foods they had eaten. He brought cach uprooted plant lovingly and with an unfailing sense of its importance. In those days his poeple had eaten âthe health of the desert,â he said, and knew nothing of the in- sides of tin cans and the things for sale at butcher shops. It was such innovations that had degraded them in these latter days. One day, without transition, Ramon broke in upon his descriptions of grinding mesquite and preparing acorn soup. âIn the beginning,â he said, âGod gave to every people a cup, a cup of clay, and from this cup they drank their life.â I do not know whether the figure occurred in some traditional ritual of his people that I never found, ot whether it was his own imagery. It is hard to imagine that he had heard it from the whites he had known at Banning; they were not given to discussing the ethos of different peoples. At any rate, in the mind of this humble Indian the figure of speech was clear and full of meaning. âThey all dipped in the water,â he continued, âbut their cups were different. Our cup is broken now. It has passed away.â Our cup is broken. These things that had given signifi- 19

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