“A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought and action. [...] Each people further and further consolidates its experience, and in proportion to the urgency of these drives the heterogenous items of behaviour take more and more congruous shape. [...] Such patterning of culture cannot be ignored as if it were an unimportant detail. The whole, as modern science is insisting in many fields, is not merely the sum of all its parts, but the result of a unique arrangement and interrelation of the parts that has brought about a new entity. Gunpowder is not merely the sum of sulphur and charcoal and saltpeter, and no amount of knowledge even of all three of tis elements in all the forms they take in the natural world will demonstrate the nature of gunpowder.” WholeActionCultureThoughtWholenessAnthropologyCultural ProcessPatterns Of Culture Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE
“The life history of the individual is first and foremost an accomodation to the patterns and standards traditionally handed in his community. From the moment of his birth the customs into which he is born shape his experience and behavior.” CultureStructureCustomLife HistoryPatterns Of CultureCulturally Conditioned Book:PATTERNS OF CULTURE Source: PATTERNS OF CULTURE