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Anthropological Methodologies


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Anthropological Methodologies
Assesses & compares methods, paradigms, interpretations in Ruth Benedict's [Patterns of Culture], Jose Limon's [Dancing with the Devil] & Gananath Obeyesekere's [Medusa's Hair].
2,250 words (approx. 9 pages) | 3 sources | 1997 United States


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"The purpose of this essay is to compare the methodological approaches of three texts and assess the appropriateness of each approach for the topics investigated by each. The three texts are Ruth Benedict's classic Patterns of Culture (1934/1989), Jos? Limon's Dancing with the Devil (1994), and Gananath Obeyesekere's Medusa's Hair (1981). The major differences between Benedict and the other two texts are symptomatic of the major changes in anthropology and many other social sciences during that last six decades.

The most obvious major difference between Benedict and the two more-recent writers is in the thickness of their cultural descriptions, and this is a difference which must affect how the texts are evaluated and discussed. Given the impact that Patterns of Culture has had on the educated world and its.."

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