chrysanthemum and the sword: patterns of Japanese culture.
by:
Ruth Benedict (author)
ISBN:
9780710029638 (0710029632)
Publish date: September 1967
Publisher: Routledge and Kegan Paul
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
History,
Cultural,
Science,
Culture,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Sociology,
Anthropology,
Japan,
Cultural Studies,
Japanese Literature
This book is a masterpiece. Each time a height has been scaled and the reader returns to the valley, he sees yet another, taller peak on the horizon.... It is essential reading.Benedict is an anthropologist -- though I've read a good amount of anthropology, I had never read Patterns of Culture. A...