This new edition has been completely redesigned for greater readability and features a new foreword by Lois Banner, a pioneer in the field of women's studies.
Originally published in 1935, in this book, Dr Benedict offers an alternative method of anthropological study, maintaining that the aim of the anthropological investigator should be the discovery in the diversity of cultures of the 'configuration' of each.
Originally published: Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1959.