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Patterns of Culture – Ruth Benedict – 1934 primers readers is offered the choice toPatterns of Culture by Ruth Benedict, published by Houghton Mifflin Company The Riverside Press, copyright 1934. A landmark work of cultural anthropology in which Benedict argues that each human culture forms a coherent pattern of behavior and values, much like an individual personality, shaped by the selective adoption of available cultural traits. Drawing on her fieldwork and that of her colleagues, she presents detailed studies of three contrasting