Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict

Patterns of Culture

Ruth Benedict

290 pages • first pub 1934 (editions)

nonfiction history sociology informative reflective slow-paced

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For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an i...

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