- National Character Studies
A defunct
anthropological focus that made broad and often flawed generalizations when studyingcultural behavior as a means of justifying the concept ofmodal personality traits. That is, recognizing and applying behavioral patterns unanimously to citizens within a culture as a result of those citizens being born and or raised there. In short,stereotyping .A good example of the logical fallacies this method produces is found in
Ruth Benedict 's book "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword", where she had studiedJapanese culture during wartime. Not surprisingly herdata characterized the empire as having a preoccupation with aesthetics and militarism.This book was a good example of
Boasian anthropology founded byFranz Boas (of whom Benedict was a student). While it was the first to introduce ascientific method to Anthropology, it had not yet developed adequate and recurrently verifiable data collection methods.See also
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Nationalism
*Margaret Mead
*Cultural determinism References
1. Sidky, Homayun. Perspectives on Culture: a Critical Introduction to Theory in Cultural Anthropology Prentice Hall, 2003. 174-178.
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