Apollonian And Dionysian Analysis

Benedict was able to group the whole personalities of a culture into two; Apollonian and Dionysian. Apollonian maintain stability in behavior and have control which usually is consider as normal. Apollo refers to God of sun, light which represent maturity, power and control. Unlike, Dionysus is God of wine, agriculture and nature. So personality that falls under Dionysian is ruminate loss control and engaging in unexpected activities and more (lecture, 02/16/16). It is the normal vs abnormal. Normality is having behavior that is to be expected within culture. On the other hand, she explained that the people that act different from their society is represented are engaged in abnormal behavior. Being abnormal comes with guilt and feeling uncomfortable because not many people can live contently knowing that they not living up to societies’ standard. For example, Benedict talks about the Zuni and there’re understand of homosexuals (book2, p 139). They have men –women that were men at puberty but were taking women occupation as a leader. They were known as the berdache which know today as two spirit in some cultures are thought of very highly. Unlike many western societies sees homosexual as an abnormal thing (book2, p.138). Benedict who constantly …show more content…
Sapir who was a linguistic anthropology (book2, P.237). He hypothesized that language detect and shape thought. He argue that although a society may speak the same language, it does not mean that we think the same. Also, that cultural shape thoughts but thought are something that is within individual. Moreover, he agree with boas with the cultural relativism. He mention the emic vs etic which is emic is the insider point of view and it to think and behave like a natives. Unlike, the etic which is the outsider point of view but using hypothesis and theory to apply it to a set of population that is being studied (lecture,