Reading List in Order of Assignment

  • Winesburg, Ohio (1919) by Sherwood Anderson
  • The Village in the Jungle (1913) by Leonard Woolf
  • Mrs. Dalloway (1925) by Virginia Woolf
  • Patterns of Culture (1934) by Ruth Benedict
  • Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) by Zora Neale Hurston
  • Untouchable (1935) by Mulk Raj Anand
  • http://www.learner.org/catalog/extras/vvspot/Bishop.html

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

Reading Questions for Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture (1934):

1. Consider Nischik's "characteristics of contemporary understanding of culture" (on handout and in article) in relation to Benedict's concept of "culture."
2. What does Benedict consider "a desperate need in present Western civilization"?
3. Why do anthropologists turn to "primitive" cultures? What do the social sciences of Western civilization ignore?
4. How is a culture like an individual?
5. What is wrong with Spengler's picture of world civilizations?
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