ANTH224 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Margaret Mead, Paten, Cultural Relativism
15 Apr 2019
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Culture, personality, and the question of deviance. Culture and personality in the work of mead, benedict and sapir. A culture, properly understood, is like a personality (integrated) Represent a subtle historical complex integration of values, goals, motivations, aesthetics. Select out parts that don"t t and nurture things that do t. The various patterns and domains of a culture are interconnected. For instance, kinship, technology and religion are linked-logically and symbolically-into an overarching con guration. Culture is integrated because humans are paten seeking and meaning-creating animals (and they are the ultimate locus of culture) Individual personality van be studied alongside culture, as long as we remember that psychology tends to re ect the dominant cultural pattern in which it developed (and in terms of which it must be understood) Integration of cultures/culture as personality writ large . Pueblo indians apollonian : rationality, coolness, avoidance of extreme emotion.
