With a preface by Margaret Mead and a new forward by Mary Catherine Bateson.

For more than a generation this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures -- the Pueblos of New Mexico, the natives of Dobu in Melanesia, and the indian tribes (chiefly the Kwakiutl) of the American Northwest coast -- Ruth Benedict first distinguished among Apollonian, Dionysian, and Paranoid emphases in culture, and put forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large."

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