Pacific Studies Journal
Abstract
This essay examines Clyde Kluckhohn’s relations with Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Gregory Bateson in two contexts: the school of culture and personality, and the Conference on Science, Philosophy, and Religion in Their Relation to the Democratic Way of Life convened during the Second World War. Kluckhohn strongly identified with the Boasian tradition. Enlisting in the Boasian campaign to make Americans more “culture-conscious,” Kluckhohn joined Benedict and Mead as a public intellectual. In this capacity, Kluckhohn sought to clarify the concept of culture and to widen its currency, emphasized the affinity between anthropology and psychiatry, and, after 1945, searched for the integrating principles of cultures.
Recommended Citation
Gilkeson, John S.
(2009)
"CLYDE KLUCKHOHN AND THE NEW ANTHROPOLOGY: FROM CULTURE AND PERSONALITY TO THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF VALUES,"
Pacific Studies Journal: Vol. 32:
No.
2, Article 6.
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