Cultural Relativity In Ruth Benedict's Patter Of Culture

In the book “Patter of Culture” by Ruth Benedict exams the concepts of cultural relativity. She careful study the differences between three cultures the Pueblo of New Mexico, Dobu of Melanesia and Kwakiutl of the Northwest Coast. By closely study how each individual group act in certain ways and different choices have been made upon the same problem between the groups. However, from her study, Benedict has found that there is a patterns of culture, which is half of her book explained the diversity of culture each individual adopt and still practiced, which is known as the life of human. It is the affection people who shared the lane with those religion. At first, Benedict started with theoretical of anthropology is the study of human from past to present , which is discuss in the story of Boas the problems occurred being “Western Civilization,” the …show more content…
That ultimately the study in depth of human psychologist is a way to transcribe a human thinking and so the adaptation of the individual particularly who live in the region that not a favor. More or less, it’s a study of human mindset, the value learned through watching the insider upon the act of making a decision either through the history that learned from their parenthood or new ages the Western Civilization. In addition, another idea Ruth Benedict talks about show the significance study of anthropology is the idea goodness of moral is link to the individual habits. In other word, the meaning of normal to us may not exactly the same as other culture. Therefore, this is an importance statement and core concept of anthropological the study of human in the present and past. Thus, every individual should shows a respect each other although that person may find little strange to us. Being said that, it is no exact traits, but it all about the complexity of the role play in