Okay, my Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict comment might be a bit harsh. I just don't like Ruth Benedict, I think. For their time, they were groundbreaking and insightful and all that. But still, they come out of a certain historical context, and a certain period of anthropology.
This is kind of unrelated to Pye, though, since when he credits them, it sounds more like he dislikes them for not being ethnocentric enough and having influenced others in that opinion.
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Date: 2007-10-05 12:41 pm (UTC)This is kind of unrelated to Pye, though, since when he credits them, it sounds more like he dislikes them for not being ethnocentric enough and having influenced others in that opinion.