This work's epigraph is a Digger proverb which says that God gave every people a cup of clay from which they drank their life. The author credits Reo Fortune's study The Sorcerers of Dobu with supplying information about one of the three peoples this book considers. The third chapter considers the concepts of Faustian and Apollonian man from Spengler's Decline of the West in the course of discussing "The Integration of Culture," while the book notes that we confuse local custom with "human nature" in the opening chapter
This work's epigraph is a Digger proverb which says that God gave every people a cup of clay from which they drank their life. The author credits Reo Fortune's study The Sorcerers of Dobu with supplying information about one of the three peoples this book considers. The third chapter considers the concepts of Faustian and Apollonian man from Spengler's Decline of the West in the course of discussing "The Integration of Culture," while the book notes that we confuse local custom with "human nature" in the opening chapter, which also notes "our blindness to other cultures." Also considering the Kwakiutl and the Zuni peoples, FTP, name this 1934 anthropological work by Ruth Benedict.
This work's epigraph is a Digger proverb which says that God gave every people a cup of clay from which they drank their life.