"Considered one of the most influential and articulate figures in American anthropology, Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) was trained by Franz Boas and Elsie Clews Parsons and collaborated with the equally renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead, a student of hers with whom she was for a time romantical...

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1. Verfasser:	Young, Virginia Heyer
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2005.
Schriftenreihe:	Critical studies in the history of anthropology.
Schlagworte:	Benedict, Ruth, > 1887-1948. Benedict, Ruth, > 1887-1948 Benedict, Ruth. Women anthropologists > United States > Biography. Anthropology > History. Femmes anthropologues > États-Unis > Biographies. Anthropologie > Histoire. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Regional Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > General. Anthropology Women anthropologists Cultureel antropologen. United States Biographies History Biographies.
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Zusammenfassung:	"Considered one of the most influential and articulate figures in American anthropology, Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) was trained by Franz Boas and Elsie Clews Parsons and collaborated with the equally renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead, a student of hers with whom she was for a time romantically involved. When Benedict died suddenly at the age of sixty-one, she was popularly known for two best-selling works: Patterns of Culture, which became an exemplary model of the integration of societies, and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, a study of Japanese culture commissioned by the U.S. government during World War II." "Benedict's lasting contribution to anthropology, however, cannot be appreciated solely through her more famous works. Equally innovative were her unpublished or little-noticed writings, which covered such topics as cross-cultural attributes of free societies, the national cultures of Thailand and Romania, and the comparison of Asian consensus politics with American political patterns. This biography by one of Benedict's last graduate students, Virginia Heyer Young, draws on these works, on Benedict's correspondence and collaborative work with Margaret Mead, and on unpublished course notes. Young finds the ordering patterns in the rich materials Benedict left in her papers and demonstrates that Benedict was embarking on new interpretive directions in the last decade of her life - bringing her methods of holistic comparison to bear on contemporary cultures and on the dynamics of social cohesion. Benedict's work, in fact, anticipated trends in anthropology in the decades to come by projecting a framework of individuals not only shaped by their culture but also using their culture for personal or collective objectives."--Jacket
Beschreibung:	1 online resource (xii, 379 pages)
Format:	Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliographie:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-357) and index.
ISBN:	0803205112 9780803205116 1281376442 9781281376442 9786611376444 6611376445