Ruth Nanda Anshen (1900–2003)
Forfatter af Letters From the Field, 1925-1975
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- Kanonisk navn
- Anshen, Ruth Nanda
- Fødselsdato
- 1900-06-14
- Dødsdag
- 2003-12-02
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
- Uddannelse
- Boston University (PhD)
- Erhverv
- philosopher
editor - Organisationer
- Royal Society of Arts
American Philosophical Association
History of Science Society
International Philosophical Society
Metaphysical Society of America - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- FRSA
- Kort biografi
- Ruth Nanda Anshen was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. Her mother Sarah Yaffe Anshen was a poet. She earned a PhD in philosophy at Boston University in the late 1930s, working Alfred North Whitehead. In 1940, she began editing the Science of Culture series, which for two decades brought together essays by thinkers such as Albert Einstein, Margaret Mead, Jonas Salk, and Thomas Mann. She also edited the Perspectives in Humanism, Religious Perspective, and World Perspective series, as well as a 30-volume collection of autobiographies called Credo Perspectives.
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Language: An Enquiry into Its Meaning and Function… af Ruth Nanda Anshen
3/14/22
Margaret Mead was famous for keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends as we see in this collection of wonderfully revealing correspondence from the field. Written over a period of half a century, these letters to friends, family, and colleagues detail her first fieldwork in Samoa and go on to record her now famous anthropological endeavors in mainland New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali. Enhanced by photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny, and often poetic letters tell us much about Mead's passion for and understanding of preliterate cultures. But they are equally valuable as a fundamental text on the science -- and art -- of anthropology. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Jan Morris and Mead's daughter. Mary Catherine Bateson.… (mere)
The mystery of iniquity examined from more than than St. Augustine's angles. Dense and provocative.
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