The Cultural Background of Personality.

Abstract

This book was written as an outgrowth of a series of lectures delivered by the author on the general subject of the interrelations of culture, society and the individual. Dr. Linton recognizes the necessity for the collaboration and utilization of many technics in the study of personality. He seeks the cooperation of psychology, sociology and anthropology. He should have included also anatomy and physiology. In this small book are packed a wealth of information and an honest appraisal of what has been accomplished in the field of personality by the social sciences to date. The psychiatrist can read with profit the general concepts of the anthropologist. What is more, there appears a discussion of the shortcomings as well as the advantages of the anthropologic technic. The chapters on the concept of culture and the one on personality are particularly good. The organization and classification of material provide in condensed form

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