Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality

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Contents ESSAYS ON CULTURE AND PERSONALITY 3 ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE SCIENCE OF THE IRRATIONAL: MALINOWSKI'S ENCOUNTER WITH FREUDIAN PSYCHOANALYSIS George W. Stocking, Jr. 13 UNCONVENTIONAL CHARACTER AND DISCIPLINARY CONVENTION: JOHN LAYARD, JUNGIAN AND ANTHROPOLOGIST Jeremy MacClancy 50 ABRAM KARDINER AND THE NEO-FREUDIAN ALTERNATIVE IN CULTURE AND PERSONALITY William C. Manson 72 MELVILLE HERSKOVITS AND THE SEARCH FOR AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURE Walter Jackson 95 VIGOROUS MALE AND ASPIRING FEMALE: POETRY, PERSONALITY, AND CULTURE IN EDWARD SAPIR AND RUTH BENEDICT Richard Handler 127 PERSONALITY AND CULTURE: THE FATE OF THE SAPIRIAN ALTERNATIVE Regna Darnell 156 vii viii CONTENTS SCIENCE, DEMOCRACY, AND ETHICS: MOBILIZING CULTURE AND PERSONALITY FOR WORLD WAR II Virginia Yans-McLaughlin 184 BETWEEN-THE-WARS BALI: REREADING THE RELICS James A. Boon 218 INDEX 247 Malinowski,Rivers, BenedictandOthers Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and others Show how common culture Shapes the separate lives: Matrilineal races Kill their mothers' brothers In their dreams and turn their Sisters into wives. Who when looking over Faces in the subway Each with its uniqueness, Would not, did he dare, Ask what forms exactly Suited to their weakness Love and desperation Take to govern there. Would not like to know what Influence occupation Has orl human vision Of the human fate: Do all clerks for instance Pigeon-hole creation, Brokers see the Ding-an- -sich as Real Estate? When a politician Dreams about his sweetheart, Does he multiply her Face into a crowd, Are her fond responses All-or-none reactions, Does he try to buy her, Is the kissing loud? Strange are love's mutations: Thus, the early poem Of the flesh sub rosa Has been known to grow Now and then into the Amor intellectu- -alis of Spinoza; How we do not know. Slowly we are learning, We at least know this much, That we have to unlearn Much that we were taught, And are growing chary Of emphatic dogmas: Love like Matter is much Odder than we thought. -W. H. Auden (Copyright 1945 by W. H. Auden. Excerpted from "Heavy Date," in W H. Auden: Collected Poems, edited by Edward Mendelson, by permission of Random House, Inc., and Faber and Faber Ltd.) ...