Ruth Fulton Benedict (1887–1948)
Forfatter af The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture
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Born in New York City, American anthropologist Ruth Benedict was educated at Vassar College and at Columbia University (Ph.D 1923) where she as a student of Franz Boas. Benedict taught English literature before turning to the social sciences. For several years Benedict taught at Columbia, where she vis mere was made a professor in 1948. Most of Benedict's fieldwork was with American Indians, and the two books that brought her fame-Patterns of Culture (1934) and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946)-are largely about cultures that she knew only secondhand. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a brilliant reconstruction of Japanese culture on the basis of wartime interviews with Japanese people who had been living in the United States for several decades, but it has been criticized for describing nearly dead patterns of Japanese social behavior. Benedict helped expand the scope of anthropology to include the importance of the role of culture. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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- Juridisk navn
- Benedict, Ruth Fulton
- Andre navne
- Singleton, Anne
- Fødselsdato
- 1887-06-05
- Dødsdag
- 1948-09-17
- Begravelsessted
- Mount Hope Cemetery, Norwich, New York, USA
- Køn
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Fødested
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødssted
- New York, New York, USA
- Dødsårsag
- heart attack
- Bopæl
- New York, New York, USA
- Uddannelse
- Vassar College (BA|1909)
Columbia University (Ph.D|1923) - Erhverv
- anthropologist
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- Columbia University
American Anthropological Association
American Folklore Society - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1947)
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