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Title: Patterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead ISBN: 0-395-50088-5 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 26 June, 1989 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Outdated and Outlandish
Comment: To put it bluntly, this book is garbage. The language is so dry and the tone of the anthropologist so condescending, it makes one picture Ms. Benedict smoking a pipe in an armchair of a library somewhere.
This book should come under fire because Benedict let others do much of the research for her. This is a theme revisited in many of her works (i.e. "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword"). She received much flack for it, as well she should. Anthropology lived vicariously is not anthropology at all.
Rating: 5
Summary: a classic in the field
Comment: This book describes several diverse cultures in depth and detail. The emphasis is on overall world view and the conceptual foundations of each culture. The writing is lucid, involving and evocative. This book sheds more light on the issue of what is basic to all human nature, and what is culturaly influenced, then any other I know.
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Title: Coming of Age in Samoa : A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation by Margaret Mead ISBN: 0688050336 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Interpretation of Cultures (Basic Books Classics) by Clifford Geertz ISBN: 0465097197 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: The Chrysanthemum and the Sword : Patterns of Japanese Culture by Ruth Benedict ISBN: 0395500753 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 26 June, 1989 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Nuer: A Description of the Modes of Livelihood and Political Institutions of a Nilotic People by E. E. Evans-Pritchard ISBN: 0195003225 Publisher: Clarendon Pr Pub. Date: December, 1968 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Anthropology and Modern Life by Franz Boas ISBN: 0486252450 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 February, 1987 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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