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Unique and important Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life New York TimesA remarkable introduction to cultural studies Patterns of Culture is an eloquent declaration of the role of culture in shaping human life In this fascinating work the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict compares three societies the Zuni of the southwestern United States the Kwakiutl of western Canada and the Dobuans of Melanesia and demonstrates the diversity of behaviors in them Benedicts groundbreaking study shows that a unique configuration of traits defines each human culture and she examines the relationship between culture and the individual Featuring prefatory remarks by Franz Boas Margaret Mead and Louise Lamphere this provocative work ultimately explores what it means to be humanThat today the modern world is on such easy terms with the concept of culture is in very great part due to this book Margaret MeadBenedicts Patterns of Culture is a foundational text in teaching us the value of diversity Her hope for the future still has resonance in the twentyfirst century that recognition of cultural relativity will create an appreciation for the coexisting and equally valid patterns of life which mankind has created for itself from the raw materials of existence from the new foreword by Louise Lamphere past president of the American Anthrolopological AssociationRuth Benedict 18871948 was one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century Her profoundly influential books Patterns of Culture and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword Patterns of Japanese Culture were bestsellers when they were first published and they have remained indispensable works for the study of culture in the many decades since. 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A strong, healthy company culture drives productivity and raises profitability, and disengaged employees cost companies billions, yet many executives rarely associate their culture with their bottom line.Today, employee engagement stakes are higher than ever because executives have to consider the impact their company culture has on external stakeholders as well. Investors, consumers, and even the government are now interested in whether the organizations they do business with have values that align with theirs and demonstrate behaviors that match those values.Executive leadership must define company culture and understand how to implement it and, ultimately, measure and improve it. In From CULTURE to CULTURE, Dr. Donte Vaughn and Randall Powers introduce their culture performance management methodology and present a behavior-driven system to operationalize company culture and increase employee engagement. In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams\'s 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media scholars from the areas of anthropology, digital humanities, history, political science, philosophy, religious studies, rhetoric, science and technology studies, and sociology. Digital Keywords examines and critiques the rich lexicon animating the emerging field of digital studies.This collection broadens our understanding of how we talk about the modern world, particularly of the vocabulary at work in information technologies. Contributors scrutinize each keyword independently: for example, the recent pairing of digital and analog is separated, while classic terms such as community, culture, event, memory, and democracy are treated in light of their historical and intellectual importance. Metaphors of the cloud in cloud computing and the mirror in data mirroring combine with recent and radical uses of terms such as information, sharing, gaming, algorithm, and internet to reveal previously hidden insights into contemporary life. Bookended by a critical introduction and a list of over two hundred other digital keywords, these essays provide concise, compelling arguments about our current mediated condition.Digital Keywords delves into what language does in today\'s information revolution and why it matters. Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life. -- New York TimesA remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of Culture is an eloquent declaration of the role of culture in shaping human life. In this fascinating work, the renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict compares three societies -- the Zuni of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of Melanesia -- and demonstrates the diversity of behaviors in them. Benedict\'s groundbreaking study shows that a unique configuration of traits defines each human culture and she examines the relationship between culture and the individual. Featuring prefatory remarks by Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Louise Lamphere, this provocative work ultimately explores what it means to be human.That today the modern world is on such easy terms with the concept of culture . . . is in very great part due to this book. -- Margaret MeadBenedict\'s Patterns of Culture is a foundational text in teaching us the value of diversity. Her hope for the future still has resonance in the twenty-first century: that recognition of cultural relativity will create an appreciation for \'the coexisting and equally valid patterns of life which mankind has created for itself from the raw materials of existence.\' -- from the new foreword by Louise Lamphere, past president of the American Anthrolopological AssociationRuth Benedict (1887-1948) was one of the most eminent anthropologists of the twentieth century. Her profoundly influential books Patterns of Culture and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture were bestsellers when they were first published, and they have remained indispensable works for the study of culture in the many decades since. The German sociologist and philosopher Georg Simmel (1858-1918) is recognized as a leading early twentieth-century European social theorist. This collection enables the reader to engage with the full range of Simmel?s dazzling contributions to the study of culture. It opens with Simmel?s basic essays on defining culture, its changes and its crisis. These are followed by more specific explorations of: the culture of face-to-face interactions spatial and urban culture leisure culture the culture of money and commodities the culture of belief and the politics of female culture. South Africa has been described as “A World in One Country” and a “Rainbow Nation.” Its landscape ranges from miles of glorious beaches to the inland desert of the Karoo, the sweeping grasslands of the Highveld plateau, and the subtropical bush of the Lowveld. Its ethnic makeup is equally varied. There are eleven official languages, nine major black African tribes, two major white tribes, as well as a representation of all the world’s major religions. It has a free market economy while communists share in government one of the world’s most liberal constitutions and a deeply patriarchal society and very rich and very poor people coexisting. South Africa has come through fire, and although there is still considerable heat, it is doing pretty well. This insiders’ guide will introduce you to the universal warmth and cultural diversity of its people, explain the backdrop of their troubled past, and familiarize you with their everyday life so that you’ll feel comfortable whether you’re invited to a shack in the townships, a mansion in the suburbs, or a braai on the beach. You’ll learn how to stay safe in potentially dangerous areas, and you’ll know where to go if you want to feel like the only person on the planet. Full of people who aim to combine the ancient and the modern, the UAE is an extremely rewarding place to visit. Set on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Gulf, the country was once a poor desert land, a confederation of tribal sheikhdoms on the periphery of the Arab world, subsisting on pearl diving and fishing. It was a British protectorate until independence in 1971, after which seven of the sheikhdoms united to form a federation, the UAE. The discovery of oil in the 1950s transformed the country’s fortunes, and the UAE today is a land of contrasts—embracing skyscrapers, high-tech communications, and luxury hotels, while conservative values and religion remain strong. The UAE is a major player in the shifting alliances of the Middle East and the war against radical Islam, simultaneously seeking a global leadership position while maintaining its social systems and slowly integrating women into public life without violating its core beliefs. Culture Smart! Kenya provides a cultural bridge that will carry you beyond the gloss of the hotels and deep into the warp and weft of everyday life beyond the game parks and into the intricacies of community and wildlife coexistence beyond the bounds of tourism and into the freedom of cultural understanding and exchange. A true “insider’s take” gleaned over years of living and working in the country, it delivers key insights into the forces, ancient and modern, that have shaped Kenya—and practical guidance on how best to enter into the modern Kenyan business and social environment. Due to its high-action pursuits, cultural treasures, wealth of wildlife, and glorious beach life, it is one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations, and the unrivaled “safari capital of the world.” As to its people, Kenya is a cultural microcosm comprising more than seventy ethnic groups. Each has its own distinctive cultural identity. All extend the warmth of welcome that has proved to be Kenya’s most valuable asset to tourism. To most people, technology has been reduced to computers, consumer goods, and military weapons we speak of technological progress in terms of RAM and CD-ROMs and the flatness of our television screens. In Human-Built World, thankfully, Thomas Hughes restores to technology the conceptual richness and depth it deserves by chronicling the ideas about technology expressed by influential Western thinkers who not only understood its multifaceted character but who also explored its creative potential.Hughes draws on an enormous range of literature, art, and architecture to explore what technology has brought to society and culture, and to explain how we might begin to develop an ecotechnology that works with, not against, ecological systems. From the Creator model of development of the sixteenth century to the big science of the 1940s and 1950s to the architecture of Frank Gehry, Hughes nimbly charts the myriad ways that technology has been woven into the social and cultural fabric of different eras and the promises and problems it has offered. Thomas Jefferson, for instance, optimistically hoped that technology could be combined with nature to create an Edenic environment Lewis Mumford, two centuries later, warned of the increasing mechanization of American life.Such divergent views, Hughes shows, have existed side by side, demonstrating the fundamental idea that in its variety, technology is full of contradictions, laden with human folly, saved by occasional benign deeds, and rich with unintended consequences. In Human-Built World, he offers the highly engaging history of these contradictions, follies, and consequences, a history that resurrects technology, rightfully, as more than gadgetry it is in fact no less than an embodiment of human values. The Desired Brand Effect Stand Out in a Saturated Market with a Timeless Brand A lot of programming involves solving the same kinds of basic problems. Well what if a community of experts got together and pooled their knowledge to come up with the best programming practices for solving these problems? You would have what are known as design patterns. Author Floyd Marinescu a leading expert on EJB worked with the members of the EJB community of TheServerSide.com to put their collective knowledge together to build a library of design patterns strategies and best practices for EJB design and development. This treasure-trove of proven best practices will allow developers to quickly solve difficult programming assignments. Unlike other patterns books this book goes beyond high-level designs to the actual code for implementing them saving developers countless hours of time and effort when building scalable reliable and maintainable EJB systems. Module One: Introduction and Concepts of Culture. Kabir . Bello,PhD. Associate Professor,. Department of Sociology,. Bayero University,. Kano. Introduction and Concepts of Culture. Module . One: Introduction and Concepts of Culture. Unit Three. Schools of Thought in Cultural Geography. Environmental determinism - . physical environment actively shapes cultures so that human responses are almost completely molded by environment. Possibilism.