Patterns of Culture (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ruth Fulton
- First Published: 1934
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Anthropology
- Subjects: Culture, Values, Manners or customs, Human race, Native Americans or American Indians, Reality, Human behavior, Conformity
Form and Content
At the age of thirty-two, having struggled for years to discover herself in poetry and in an unsatisfactory marriage, Ruth Benedict took her first course in anthropology, studying with Franz Boas, whose work is the cornerstone of American anthropology. During the next fifteen years, she became an extremely influential anthropologist in her own right and published Patterns of Culture, which can be considered the key statement of the culture-and-personality school of anthropology, the tenets of which are as ingrained in modern thinking as are the theories...
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