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Animal Kingdom
Australian Horror
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Bird's Eye
Bird’s Eye
Cataleptic Seizures
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comparative societies
cross-cultural behavioural patterns
cultural anthropology
cultural drive
cultural forms
Dead Man
Ductless Glands
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ethnographic analysis
Faustian Man
Good Life
human behaviour
Human Suffering
indigenous cultural studies
Masked Gods
North West Coast
primitive people
Puberty Rites
qualitative fieldwork
Sea Water
Seed Yams
social integration theory
Winter Ceremonial
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9780367150037
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 07 Dec 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book was originally published in 1935. For some years past the scientific study of primitive peoples has experimented in a variety of directions for new methods of investigation. Criticism of the comparative method, of which Sir James Frazer is recognized as the foremost exponent all the world over, has been directed mainly against the fragmentary character of its evidence when torn from its context.
In this book Dr Benedict offers an alternative method of approach. The aim of the investigator, she maintains, should be the discovery in the diversity of cultures of the 'configuration' of each - that is the cultural drive in group and individual which determines the characteristic reaction to stimulus in any and every situation in life.
