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

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INDEX Abel, Theodora, 224, 225, 237 Abraham, Karl, 80 Academic anthropology, 7-8, 55, 64-69, 74, 76-77, llO, 136, 156-80. See also specific universities. Acculturation, 102, 103, 106, 107, lIO-15, 119, 120, 157, 174 Aesthetics, 128, 129-32, 136, 148 Africa, 97, 98, 105-7, 110, 112-16, 118, 12124 Afro-Americans: music of, 97, 106-7, 108, 109, 112; and African culture, 97-98, 105-6, 109, 112, lI6, 119, 122, 124; physical characteristics of, 98-99, 106, 107, 120; cultural pattern of, 102-3, 112; psychology of, 103, 111, 112; motor behavior of, 106-7, ll2, 120; as active shapers of culture, 114, 122; black consciousness, 120-24 Aldington, Richard, 130 Alexander, Franz, 77 Allport, Gordon, 196 Alor, 81, 85-86, 88 American Anthropological Association, 178, 187, 193 American Anthropologist, 79 American anthropology, 5-10, 72, 74, 78, 79,87, 127, 187-89, 179. See also Boasian anthropology American Council of Learned Societies, 178 American Indians. See Native Americans American Psychiatric Association, 163, 167, 175 Analytical Psychology Club (Oxford), 56 Angell, James, 171 Anthropology: as a science, 105; "ethnological ," 160; and politics, 184-87, 195, 207, 209, 213-14 Anthrop~logy Club (Cambridge), 51 Anti-Semitism, 98, 173 Applied anthropology, 26n, 67-68, 97, 114, 115, 152, 184, 185-87, 196, 204, 208, 213, 214 Arapesh, 3, 190 Arnold, Matthew, 133 Assimilation, 95, 97, 100-102, 121-23 Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, 98 Association of Social Anthropologists, 50 Atlanta University, 98 Auden, W. H., 4, 5, 8, 54, 65 Australian Aboriginals, 20 Avenarius, Richard, IS, 16 Bagehot, Walter, 32 Bali, 190-92, 218-45 Barnard College, 189 Barnouw, Victor, 86, 90 Barzun, Jacques, 207 Bateson, Gregory: and M. Mead, 3, 189, 191, 194, 198,204, 207, 211-14, 235-36, 244-45; on national character, 87-88, 201-2; training, 190; fieldwork, 190, 192; and Radcliffe-Brown, 190, 203; on schismogenesis or circular systems, 191, 195, 198, 200, 201, 202, 210, 227; epistemology of, 191, 198, 209-11, 213; political attitudes , 194-95, 213-14; in World War II, 196-214; on ethics and anthropology, 209-lI; learning theory, 210-11; and British anthropology, 211-14; on authority of the past, 218, 219, 229; mentioned, 8, 9, 80, 179, 223 Bateson, William, 189 Baynes, H. G., 56 Beaglehole, Pearl, 176 Behaviorism, 41, 89, 90, 165, 168, 172-73 Belo, Jane: Traditional Balinese Culture, 218, 222, 224, 225, 230, 245; early work, 223; and psychoanalysis, 226-27, 228, 236-37; and homosexuality, 229; and W. Spies, 230-37, 244; and police investigations, 235; mentioned, 219 Benedict, Ruth: Patterns of Culture, 3, 78, 87, m, 127, 136, 147, lSI, 188, 224; on Japanese national character, 9; and cultural relativism, 78, 121; theory of culture and personality, 78, 128, 149-50; and Kardiner 's seminar, 79; and neo-Freudians, 81; and tolerance, 122, 128, 150; and Sapir, 127-28, 140, 143-44, 146, 175; cultural theory, 127-28, 149-50; and poetry, 128, 249 250 INDEX Benedict, Ruth (continued) 133-36, 138-41, 143, 152; quest for personality , 132, 133, 134-36, 140, 152; and sex problem, 133, 135, 146-47; and feminism , 135; as Anne Singleton, 140; and social engineering, 150, 152; and psychoanalysis , 175-76; and M. Mead, 189,20811 ; politics of, 207, 212; on ethics and anthropology, 208, 210-11; mentioned, 8, 99, 122, 179, 180, 197 Benedict, Stanley, 140, 143 Benjamin, Walter, 221 Berkeley, California, 79 Boas, Franz: attack on racism, 4, 95, 99; on mind of primitive man, 4, 169; on genius of peoples, 9; and Abram Kardiner, 72; opposition to evolutionism, 75; and Freud, 76; and Linton, 81n; and W. E. B. Ou Bois, 98; and Sapir, 138, 157-58, 168; on politics and anthropology, 185-88; and cultural anthropology, 188-89; and M. Mead, 188-89, 193; mentioned, 74, 110, 115, 116, 122, 136, 151, 168, 179, 223 Boasian anthropology,S, 76, 78, 81, 87, 97, 100, 105, 110-11, 115, 117, 121, 122, 15860 , 161, 168 Bonaparte, Marie, 13, 44, 45 Brazil, 106, 241-42 Brill, A. A., 74, 75, 79 British anthropology, 4, 8, 13-14, 20, 29-31, 41-44, 50, 54-55, 64-69, 188-89, 191, 211-14 Brown, Sterling, 117 Bucher, Karl, 19, 20 Buckle, Henry, 8 Budge, Wallis, 78 Bunche, Ralph, 117 Bunzel, Ruth, 79, 176 Bureau of American Ethnology, 186-87 Bureau of Indian Affairs, 187 Burgess, Ernest, 163 Burke, Kenneth, 221n Bush Negroes, 107-9, 121...