1959 Patterns of Culture Ruth Benedict PB Book, Anthropology Text Margaret Mead

Originally written and published in 1934, this is an edition published on or after 1959. This edition includes a foreword by Margaret Mead. Patterns of Culture (1934), Benedict’s major contribution to anthropology, compares Zuñi, Dobu, and Kwakiutl cultures in order to demonstrate how small a portion of the possible range of human behaviour is incorporated into any one culture; she argues that it is the "personality," the particular complex of traits and attitudes, of a culture that defines the individuals within it as successes, misfits, or outcasts. 1959 Patterns of Culture Ruth Benedict PB Book, Anthropology Text Margaret Mead Folklorist Human Behaviour Culture Study