Patterns of Culture – Ruth Benedict – 1934 primers readers The volume is illustrated throughout

The volume is illustrated throughout with a selection of black-and-white plates reproducing his paintings

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Anatomy of the Human Body

Interior pages are intact with age-appropriate toning

Interior pages are intact with toning consistent with age and prior library use

Patterns of Culture – Ruth Benedict – 1934 primers readers The volume is illustrated throughoutPatterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict, published by Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press, copyright 1934. A landmark work of cultural anthropology in which Benedict argues that each human culture forms a coherent pattern of behavior and values, much like an individual personality, shaped by the selective adoption of available cultural traits. Drawing on her fieldwork and that of her colleagues, she presents detailed studies of three contrasting