Patterns of Culture
by:
Ruth Benedict (author)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B00CKDFEEW
Publish date: May 1st 1973
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pages no: 320
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
History,
Academic,
Science,
Culture,
Philosophy,
College,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Social Science,
Theory
Confronted with other cultures or just life-styles we all tend to be rather judgemental classifying the one as primitive, the other as aggressive, yet another (usually our own) as civilised, and so forth. Moreover, we use to think in the categories of good and evil like we who were born into an envi...
This is the first (and, likely, only) cultural athro book I've read. I enjoyed it, but the set up of the chapters drove me crazy. It was a lot of information in each chapter, without line breaks or subheadings. I'm the type of person that likes reading a chapter when they sit down. I couldn't do tha...
9 years ago
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