Benedict, Ruth 1887-1948
Overview
| Works: | 477 works in 1,974 publications in 18 languages and 33,052 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Biographies Criticism, interpretation, etc Folklore Legends Bibliographies Academic theses History |
| Roles: | Author, Editor, Contributor, Author of introduction, Creator, Other, Honoree, Recipient |
| Classifications: | DS821, 572 |
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Most widely held works about
Ruth Benedict
- Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict : the kinship of women by Hilary Lapsley( )
- Scientists and storytellers : feminist anthropologists and the construction of the American Southwest by Catherine Jane Lavender( )
- From the modernist annex : American women writers in museums and libraries by Karin Roffman( )
- Ruth Benedict : beyond relativity, beyond pattern by Virginia Heyer Young( )
- Ruth Benedict by Margaret Mead( Book )
- An anthropologist at work; writings of Ruth Benedict by Ruth Benedict( Book )
- Ruth Benedict, patterns of a life by Judith Schachter( Book )
- Ruth Benedict : stranger in this land by Margaret M Caffrey( Book )
- Intertwined lives : Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict and their circle by Lois W Banner( Book )
- Reading Benedict/reading Mead : feminism, race, and imperial visions( Book )
- Ruth Fulton Benedict : a memorial by Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research( Book )
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century by Charles King( )
- An anthropologist at work by Ruth Benedict( )
- The reinvention of humanity : a story of race, sex, gender and the discovery of culture by Charles King( Book )
- Gods of the upper air : how a circle of renegade anthropologists reinvented race, sex, and gender in the twentieth century by Charles King( )
- Lu si"." pan nai de : wen hua mo shi de shi shen( Book )
- Ruth Fulton Benedict papers by Ruth Benedict( )
- Guiding spirits : an inquiry into the nature of the bond between Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead by Gail Dimitroff( Book )
- A biographical study of Ruth Fulton Benedict by Judith Schachter( )
- O'odham creation & related events by Ruth Benedict( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Ruth Benedict
Patterns of culture by
Ruth Benedict(
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330 editions published between 1934 and 2020 in 15 languages and held by 5,131 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A study of the civilizations of the Zuni Indians, the natives of Dobu, and the Kwakiutl Indians
330 editions published between 1934 and 2020 in 15 languages and held by 5,131 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A study of the civilizations of the Zuni Indians, the natives of Dobu, and the Kwakiutl Indians
The chrysanthemum and the sword : patterns of Japanese culture by
Ruth Benedict(
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297 editions published between 1946 and 2020 in 9 languages and held by 4,371 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Written at the invitation of the U.S. Office of War Information, in order to understand and predict the behavior of the Japanese in World War II by reference to a series of contradictions in traditional culture, this book was influential in shaping American ideas about Japanese culture during the postwar occupation of Japan, and popularized the distinction between guilt cultures and shame cultures. Although it has received harsh criticism, the book has continued to be influential. Two anthropologists wrote in 1992 that there is "a sense in which all of us have been writing footnotes to [Chrysanthemum] since it appeared in 1946." Translated into Japanese in 1948, the book appeared in Japan during a period of intense national self-examination and influenced Japanese conceptions of themselves. It has also been said that there has been so much change since World War II in Japan that Benedict would not recognize the nation she described in 1946.--Adapted from Wikipedia, 2019
297 editions published between 1946 and 2020 in 9 languages and held by 4,371 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Written at the invitation of the U.S. Office of War Information, in order to understand and predict the behavior of the Japanese in World War II by reference to a series of contradictions in traditional culture, this book was influential in shaping American ideas about Japanese culture during the postwar occupation of Japan, and popularized the distinction between guilt cultures and shame cultures. Although it has received harsh criticism, the book has continued to be influential. Two anthropologists wrote in 1992 that there is "a sense in which all of us have been writing footnotes to [Chrysanthemum] since it appeared in 1946." Translated into Japanese in 1948, the book appeared in Japan during a period of intense national self-examination and influenced Japanese conceptions of themselves. It has also been said that there has been so much change since World War II in Japan that Benedict would not recognize the nation she described in 1946.--Adapted from Wikipedia, 2019
Race: science and politics by
Ruth Benedict(
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77 editions published between 1940 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,690 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In science, race can be a useful concept-for specific, limited purposes. When race, as a way of classifying people, is drafted into the service of politics, religion, or any belief system, then danger follows. That is the focus of this classic repudiation of racism, which is as readable and timely now as when it first appeared. Race: Science and Politics was first published in 1940, in response to the global rise of fascism and its pseudoscientific rationales for marginalizing and even exterminating "inferior" people. Writing for a general audience, Ruth Benedict ranges across the history of Western thought and research on race to illuminate rifts between the facts of race and the claims of racism. Rather than take issue only with the Nazis and their allies, Benedict set out to show that all racist beliefs are objectively groundless-and that is the key to the book's ongoing relevance. The book's bonus content includes The Races of Mankind, a pamphlet-length distillation of the book with its own controversial role in dismantling racist theory. This edition also includes a new foreword by Judith Schachter. An anthropologist, historian, and Benedict biographer, Schachter discusses the book's importance for current readers. Also included is a foreword by anthropologist Margaret Mead from 1958, a time when colonial ties around the world were unravelling and civil rights unrest was a daily occurrence in the United States"--
77 editions published between 1940 and 2019 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,690 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"In science, race can be a useful concept-for specific, limited purposes. When race, as a way of classifying people, is drafted into the service of politics, religion, or any belief system, then danger follows. That is the focus of this classic repudiation of racism, which is as readable and timely now as when it first appeared. Race: Science and Politics was first published in 1940, in response to the global rise of fascism and its pseudoscientific rationales for marginalizing and even exterminating "inferior" people. Writing for a general audience, Ruth Benedict ranges across the history of Western thought and research on race to illuminate rifts between the facts of race and the claims of racism. Rather than take issue only with the Nazis and their allies, Benedict set out to show that all racist beliefs are objectively groundless-and that is the key to the book's ongoing relevance. The book's bonus content includes The Races of Mankind, a pamphlet-length distillation of the book with its own controversial role in dismantling racist theory. This edition also includes a new foreword by Judith Schachter. An anthropologist, historian, and Benedict biographer, Schachter discusses the book's importance for current readers. Also included is a foreword by anthropologist Margaret Mead from 1958, a time when colonial ties around the world were unravelling and civil rights unrest was a daily occurrence in the United States"--
Tales of the Cochiti Indians by
Ruth Benedict(
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4 editions published in 1931 in English and held by 595 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
4 editions published in 1931 in English and held by 595 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Zuni mythology by
Ruth Benedict(
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29 editions published between 1935 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
29 editions published between 1935 and 2007 in English and Undetermined and held by 579 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
An anthropologist at work; writings of Ruth Benedict by
Ruth Benedict(
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32 editions published between 1959 and 1977 in English and Undetermined and held by 552 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book is both the history of a new approach to anthropology and the biography of a brilliant, sensitive, and elusive woman. It is the posthumous product of a long collaboration between two distinguished anthropologists, Ruth Benedict, who died in 1948, and Margaret Mead, who was first her pupil, then her friend and colleague, and now her literary executor and biographer. The approach can best be described in Ruth Benedict's own phrase: that a culture is "a personality writ large." It is a people's culture that binds them together, and culture is inherited not biologically but through customs handed down from one generation to another. As each individual is related to his cultural background, so is each culture related to the general background. This theory is illuminated and its development shown through a careful selection from Benedict's articles, journals, and correspondence, woven into a continuous narrative and amplified by Mead. From this narrative, there emerges the figure of a complex and fascinating woman, at once diffident and determined, gentle and inflexible, affectionate and solitary. The paradox of Benedict's life as daughter, wife, student, teacher, poet, researcher, and writer is interpreted by the lucid and perceptive observations which introduce each section and make this book by two of the foremost anthropologists of our generation unique.--From publisher description
32 editions published between 1959 and 1977 in English and Undetermined and held by 552 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This book is both the history of a new approach to anthropology and the biography of a brilliant, sensitive, and elusive woman. It is the posthumous product of a long collaboration between two distinguished anthropologists, Ruth Benedict, who died in 1948, and Margaret Mead, who was first her pupil, then her friend and colleague, and now her literary executor and biographer. The approach can best be described in Ruth Benedict's own phrase: that a culture is "a personality writ large." It is a people's culture that binds them together, and culture is inherited not biologically but through customs handed down from one generation to another. As each individual is related to his cultural background, so is each culture related to the general background. This theory is illuminated and its development shown through a careful selection from Benedict's articles, journals, and correspondence, woven into a continuous narrative and amplified by Mead. From this narrative, there emerges the figure of a complex and fascinating woman, at once diffident and determined, gentle and inflexible, affectionate and solitary. The paradox of Benedict's life as daughter, wife, student, teacher, poet, researcher, and writer is interpreted by the lucid and perceptive observations which introduce each section and make this book by two of the foremost anthropologists of our generation unique.--From publisher description
Race and racism by
Ruth Benedict(
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47 editions published between 1942 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 486 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
47 editions published between 1942 and 2013 in 4 languages and held by 486 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The concept of the guardian spirit in North America by
Ruth Benedict(
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20 editions published between 1923 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
20 editions published between 1923 and 1974 in English and Undetermined and held by 422 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
The races of mankind by
Ruth Benedict(
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34 editions published between 1943 and 1980 in English and held by 402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
34 editions published between 1943 and 1980 in English and held by 402 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
General anthropology by
Franz Boas(
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28 editions published between 1938 and 1967 in English and held by 396 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
28 editions published between 1938 and 1967 in English and held by 396 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
O'odham creation & related events by
Ruth Benedict(
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5 editions published between 2001 and 2016 in English and held by 392 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Brings together dozens of stories collected in 1927 by anthropologist Ruth Benedict during her only visit to the Pimas, plus songs and orations that accompanied a telling. It also includes a previously unpublished text by Benedict, "Figures of Speech among the Pima."
5 editions published between 2001 and 2016 in English and held by 392 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Brings together dozens of stories collected in 1927 by anthropologist Ruth Benedict during her only visit to the Pimas, plus songs and orations that accompanied a telling. It also includes a previously unpublished text by Benedict, "Figures of Speech among the Pima."
Thai culture and behavior : an unpublished war-time study dated September, 1943 by
Ruth Benedict(
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29 editions published between 1943 and 1987 in English and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
29 editions published between 1943 and 1987 in English and held by 306 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
In Henry's backyard; the races of mankind by
Ruth Benedict(
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6 editions published between 1947 and 1948 in English and held by 262 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A humorous look at cartoon characters shows that all humans are really the same, despite differences in skin color
6 editions published between 1947 and 1948 in English and held by 262 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
A humorous look at cartoon characters shows that all humans are really the same, despite differences in skin color
Tales of the Cochiti Indians by
Ruth Benedict(
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)
26 editions published between 1931 and 2008 in English and held by 258 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
26 editions published between 1931 and 2008 in English and held by 258 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Echantillons de civilisations (Patterns of Culture) by
Ruth Benedict(
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21 editions published between 1950 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
21 editions published between 1950 and 2002 in 3 languages and held by 159 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Showers(
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2 editions published between 1979 and 1980 in English and held by 152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
2 editions published between 1979 and 1980 in English and held by 152 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Urformen der Kultur by
Ruth Benedict(
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9 editions published between 1955 and 1963 in German and held by 111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
9 editions published between 1955 and 1963 in German and held by 111 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Die Rassenfrage in Wissenschaft und Politik by
Ruth Benedict(
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3 editions published in 1947 in German and held by 101 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
3 editions published in 1947 in German and held by 101 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Bicycling by
Ruth Benedict(
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5 editions published in 1944 in English and held by 97 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published in 1944 in English and held by 97 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Race and cultural relations : America's answer to the myth of a master race by
Ruth Benedict(
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5 editions published between 1942 and 1949 in English and held by 85 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
5 editions published between 1942 and 1949 in English and held by 85 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Mead, Margaret 1901-1978 Author of introduction Author Editor
- Lapsley, Hilary Author
- Reichard, Gladys Amanda 1893-1955
- Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews 1874-1941 Author
- Lavender, Catherine Jane Author
- Underhill, Ruth 1883-1984
- Larsen, Nella
- Moore, Marianne 1887-1972
- Roffman, Karin Author
- Wharton, Edith 1862-1937
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Associated Subjects
American literature--Women authors Anthropologists Anthropologists' writings, American Anthropology Anthropology--Research Benedict, Ruth, Boas, Franz, Civilization Cochiti Indians Culture Deloria, Ella Cara Ethnology Ethnology--Fieldwork Ethnopsychology Female friendship Feminist anthropology Hurston, Zora Neale Indian mythology Indians of North America Indians of North America--Religion Indians of North America--Social life and customs Japan Japanese Kwakiutl Indians Larsen, Nella Lesbian anthropologists Libraries in literature Libraries--Social aspects Manners and customs Mead, Margaret, Moore, Marianne, National characteristics, Japanese New Southwest North America Papua New Guinea--Dobu Island Parsons, Elsie Worthington Clews, Pima mythology Primitive societies Race Race relations Racism in anthropology Reichard, Gladys Amanda, Thailand Underhill, Ruth, United States Women and literature Women anthropologists Women anthropologists--Attitudes Women Indianists Zuni Indians
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Alternative Names
Benedhikuto, Rūsu 1887-1948
Benedict R.
Benedict R. 1887-1948
Benedict, R. (Ruth), 1887-1948
Benedict, Ruth 1887-1948
Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948 -- 菊と刀.
Benedict, Ruth F. 1887-1948
Benedict Ruth Fulton
Benedict Ruth Fulton 1887-1948
Benedictová, Ruth
Bennidikete, Lusi 1887-1948
Fulton Benedict, Ruth 1887-1948
Fulton Ruth
Fulton, Ruth 1887-1948
Fulton, Ruth Benedict 1887-1948
Lusi Bennidikete 1887-1948
Panfilo Costa American anthropologist and folklorologist
Rut Benedikt
Ruth Benedict Amerikaans antropologe (1887-1948)
Ruth Benedict amerikansk sosialantropolog
Ruth Benedict amerykańska antropolog
Ruth Benedict anthropologue, auteur de nombreux livres d'ethnologie comparée
Ruth Benedict Antropolog og folklorist
Ruth Benedict antropóloga estadounidense
Ruth Benedict antropòloga estatunidenca
Ruth Benedict antropóloga estauxunidense
Ruth Benedict antropóloga norte-americana
Ruth Benedict antropologa statunitense
Ruth Benedict Antropóloga y folcloróloga estadounidense
Ruth Benedict antropologo estatubatuarra
Ruth Benedict US-amerikanische Anthropologin
Ruth Benedictová
Ruth Fulton Benedict
Ruth Fultonová Benedictová
Ρουθ Μπένεντικτ Αμερικανίδα ανθρωπολόγος
Бенедикт Р.
Бенедикт Р. 1887-1948
Бенедикт Р.Ф
Бенедикт Р.Ф. 1887-1948
Бенедикт Рут
Бенедикт, Рут 1887-1948
Рут Бенедикт
Рут Бенедикт американски антрополог
Рут Бенедикт американский антрополог, представитель этнопсихологического направления в американской антропологии
Рут Бенедыкт
רות בנדיקט
روث بندكت
روث بندكت، 1887-1948
روث بندكت عالمة بعلوم الإنسان من الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية
روث بندیکت
ਰੁਥ ਬੈਨੇਡਿਕਟ
ரூத் பெனடிக்ட்
രൂത്ത് ബെനഡിക്ട്
รูธ เบเนดิกต์
루스 베니딕트
베네딕트, 루드 1887-1948
베네딕트, 루스 1887-1948
베네딕트, 루스 풀턴 1887-1948
ベネディクト, R
ベネディクト, ルース
ベネディクト, ルース 1887-1948
ルース・ベネディクト
ルースベネディクト 1887-1948
本尼迪克特, 鲁斯 1887-1948
露絲·潘乃德
鲁思·本尼迪克特
鲁斯本尼迪克特 1887-1948
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