Ruth Benedict
Birth date: June 05, 1887
Died: June 17, 1948
Ruth Benedict's Books
Confronted with other cultures or just life-styles we all tend to be rather judgemental classifying the one as primitive, the other as aggressive, yet another (usually our own) as civilised, and so forth. Moreover, we use to think in the categories of good and evil like we who were born into an envi...
This is the first (and, likely, only) cultural athro book I've read. I enjoyed it, but the set up of the chapters drove me crazy. It was a lot of information in each chapter, without line breaks or subheadings. I'm the type of person that likes reading a chapter when they sit down. I couldn't do tha...
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...
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