In this well-known collection of essays, Dorothy Lee offers her readers an expedition into various world cultures, an imaginary field trip that reveals different views of autonomy, concepts of the individual in society, and interpretations of personal freedom. Dorothy Lee brings Wintu, Hopi, Tikopia, Trobriand, and many other cultures into focus, often contrasting them with our social structure, delineating the differences in language patterns, responsibilities as citizens of a community, and the appreciation of individual expression. The point of view of this work, a unique perspective on these contemporary materials, is achieved through Dorothy Lee's ability to fuse the anthropologist's contact with many cultures and a personal concern with the immediate responsibilities of citizenship, homelife, and motherhood. The result is a blending of science an the humanities-a readable, warm, and concrete account of freedom, being, and existence. Dorothy Lee's work provides possible alternatives to the social direction often thoughtlessly followed by modern man. Not prescriptive or "angry," it implicitly challenges the sophistication and stimulates the creative imagination of the reader.
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Also by Dorothy Lee and available from Waveland Press: Valuing the Self: What We Can Learn from Other Cultures (ISBN 9780881332292).
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This book changed my life in the 1970s. I read it for a cultural anthropology course (the only one I ever took) and it completely opened my mind in regard to understanding that there are so many different perceptions of reality than those that the western world, and indeed speakers of English, have. The chapters on the different cultures - and especially how their language shapes their experience of time, relationships etc. is fascinating. I've read thousands of books in my lifetime, and even after 35 years, would still list this book as one of the five most important and influential books I've ever read. Don't miss it!
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This book is incredible. My professor recommended reading Dorothy Lee for the paper I am writing for anthropological theory. I am very greatful for his recommendation as it is unlike most anthropological writing in that it is not only well written, but interesting. Lee is way ahead of her time in that she does not keep it a secret where she is coming from; she doesn't pretend to have no biases. She also does an incredible job of leaving her points open for interpretation, she does not claim to be the end all be all authority on the people she writes about.
This book should seriously be re-printed for 21st century readers who need a wake-up call just as much as the 1950s readers did.
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I read this book thirty years ago. It both opened my mind to a view of being human that I'd never conceived of and gave me a view of living that I had been seeking my whole life. I read this book fifteen years ago and it changed forever the way I raised my son. Since then I have often thought of this book as the most important book I ever read.
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THE COMMON THEME OF THE ESSAYS in this volume is that culture is a symbolic system which transforms the physical reality, what is there, into experienced reality. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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