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Ruth Fulton Benedict (June 5, 1887 – September 17, 1948) was an American anthropologist and folklorist. She was born in New York City, attended Vassar College , and graduated in 1909. After studying anthropology at the New School of Social Research under Elsie Clews Parsons , she entered graduate studies at Columbia University in 1921, where ...
The Ruth Benedict Prize is an award given annually by the American Anthropological Association's "to acknowledge excellence in a scholarly book written from an anthropological perspective about a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender topic".
Between 1946 and 1971, the book sold only 28,000 hardback copies, and a paperback edition was not issued until 1967. [8] Benedict played a major role in grasping the place of the Emperor of Japan in Japanese popular culture, and formulating the recommendation to President Franklin D. Roosevelt that permitting continuation of the Emperor's reign had to be part of the eventual surrender offer.
Ruth Sarles Benedict (January 28, 1906 – September 6, 1996) was an American anti-war activist, researcher and journalist. She worked for the National Council for Prevention of War as an editor and the America First Committee as head of research in the 1930s, [ 1 ] and as a reporter for The Washington Daily News in the 1940s. [ 2 ]
Tales of the Cochiti Indians is a 1931 work by Ruth Benedict. [1] It collects the folk tales of the Cochiti Puebloan peoples in New Mexico.The book is considered an important work in the discipline of feminist anthropology. [2]
This classification has been applied especially to what anthropologist Ruth Benedict called "apollonian" societies, sorting them according to the emotions they use to control individuals (especially children) and maintaining social order, swaying them into norm obedience and conformity. [2]
Ruth Benedict (1887–1948), American anthropologist; Anna Bērzkalne (1891–1956), Latvian folklorist and ethnographer; Alicia Dussán de Reichel (1920–2023), Colombian anthropologist; Dina Dahbany-Miraglia (born 1938), American Yemini linguistic anthropologist, educator; Bertha P. Dutton (1903–1994), anthropologist and ethnologist
Rob Benedict (born September 21, 1970) is an American actor and writer. His near 30 year career includes more than 90 television and movie credits. ... Ruth Connell ...