"These texts expose ... the impoverishing effect of recent emphases
on critical virtuosity. The phenomenological status, processes, and
practices involved (in our culture) in terms such as "character"
are fascinating to study." . Journal of Anthropological Research
"Regardless of the dated theoretical approach of these classics,
their valuable factual material and the ability of the authors to
inspire further reflection still make them worth reading." .
Ethnos
This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of
the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great
Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An
Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were
among the first attempts by anthropologists to analyze Russian
society.
They were influential both for several generations of
anthropologists and in shaping American governmental attitudes
toward the Soviet Union during the Cold War period. Additionally
they offer fascinating insights into the early anthropological use
of psychological data to analyze cultural patterns. Read as part of
the history of the anthropology of complex contemporary societies,
they are as fascinating for their more questionable conclusions as
for their accurate characterizations of Russian life."
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