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"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 Equally innovative were her unpublished or little-noticed writings, which covered such topics as cross-cultural attributes of free societies, the national cultures of Thailand and Romania, and the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Heyer Young, draws on these works, on Benedict's correspondence and collaborative work with Margaret Mead, and on unpublished course notes.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.
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Anthropologists --- Ethnology --- Benedict, Ruth, - 1887-1948
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Benedict, Ruth --- Culture --- Ethnopsychology --- Zuni Indians --- National characteristics [Japanese ]
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Anthropologists --- Female friendship --- Lesbian anthropologists --- Anthropologues --- Amitié féminine --- Anthropologues lesbiennes --- Biography --- Biography. --- Biographie --- Mead, Margaret, --- Benedict, Ruth, --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Primary groups --- Mead, Margaret --- Benedict, Ruth --- anno 1900-1999 --- Friendships --- Biographical details --- Book --- Anthropology
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Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Biography --- Book --- Anthropology --- Benedict, Ruth --- Mead, Margaret --- anno 1900-1999 --- United States of America
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"At the end of the 19th century, everyone knew that people were defined by their race and sex and were fated by birth and biology to be more or less intelligent, able, nurturing, or warlike. But one rogue researcher looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Franz Boas was the very image of a mad scientist: a wild-haired immigrant with a thick German accent. By the 1920s he was also the foundational thinker and public face of a new school of thought at Columbia University called cultural anthropology. He proposed that cultures did not exist on a continuum from primitive to advanced. Instead, every society solves the same basic problems -- from childrearing to how to live well -- with its own set of rules, beliefs, and taboos. Boas's students were some of the century's intellectual stars: Margaret Mead, the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in Samoa is one of the most widely read works of social science of all time; Ruth Benedict, the great love of Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War Japan; Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans of the Great Plains; and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas fed directly into her now-classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Together, they mapped vanishing civilizations from the Arctic to the South Pacific and overturned the relationship between biology and behavior. Their work reshaped how we think of women and men, normalcy and deviance, and re-created our place in a world of many cultures and value systems. Gods of the Upper Air is a page-turning narrative of radical ideas and adventurous lives, a history rich in scandal, romance, and rivalry, and a genesis story of the fluid conceptions of identity that define our present moment"--
Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Anthropologists --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Study and teaching --- History --- Boas, Franz, --- Influence. --- Hurston, Zora Neale --- Benedict, Ruth --- Deloria, Ella --- Mead, Margaret --- Race --- Gender --- Sexuality --- Science --- Book --- Anthropology
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Scherpe kritiek op de antropologie. Beschrijft gedetailleerd de wisselwerkingen tussen populaire ideeën over culturele verschillen enerzijds en antropologische studies anderzijds en hekelt de immense invloed die deze gangbare opvattingen over 'culturele identiteit' uitoefenen op het (Amerikaanse) politieke en maatschappelijke leven.
Sociology of culture --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Ethnology. Cultural anthropology --- Gender --- Multiculturalism --- Book --- Anthropology --- Benedict, Ruth --- Mead, Margaret --- United States of America
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