The Science of Culture: The Bearing of Anthropology on Contemporary Thought by Ruth Benedict, edited and with an introduction by Alex Golub
| dc.contributor.author | Benedict, Ruth | |
| dc.contributor.author | Golub, Alex | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-02-04T19:46:26Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-02-04T19:46:26Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-02-04 | |
| dc.description.abstract | In this SMOPS I’m very pleased to present “The Science of Culture,” an essay that Ruth Benedict published in 1929 and has languished unread since then. “Science of Culture” was significantly revised to become the first chapter of Patterns of Culture, so readers will be familiar with the ideas expressed in it. However, this original version is significantly different from that chapter, and works better as a standalone essay. It seems that every decade or so, anthropologists feel the need to write an essay to tell a general audience what our discipline’s main findings and beliefs are. This article, like Kroeber’s “The Superorganic” published 12 years earlier, is Benedict’s version of a popular account of the anthropological credo. | |
| dc.format.extent | 13 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10524/36022 | |
| dc.language.iso | en-US | |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | Savage Minds Occasional Papers No. 10 | |
| dc.rights | This original work is copyright by Alex Golub, 2014. The author has issued the work under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States license. You are free: to share - to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix - to adapt the work, under the following conditions: attribution - you must attribute the work in the manner specified by the author; noncommercial - you may not use this work for commercial purposes; share alike - if you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under the same or similar license to this one. This work is an edited version of Benedict, Ruth. 1929. The Science of Culture: The Bearing of Anthropology on Contemporary Theory. The Century Magazine 117 (6): 641-649. This work is in the public domain because its copyright was not renewed. The author has taken care to respect the rights of all copyright holders and welcomes communications regarding the copyright status of this work. Please contact him at golub@hawaii.edu. | |
| dc.rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/ | * |
| dc.subject | custom | |
| dc.subject | culture | |
| dc.subject | human nature | |
| dc.subject | anthropology | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948 | |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Ethnology | |
| dc.title | The Science of Culture: The Bearing of Anthropology on Contemporary Thought by Ruth Benedict, edited and with an introduction by Alex Golub | |
| dc.type | Series Issue | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text |