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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 ...
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 ]
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.
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".
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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 ]
Graham was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. [8] The elder of two children, her younger sister Aimee Graham is also an actress and writer. Her mother Joan (née Bransfield) is a teacher and author of children's books, [9] and her father James Graham is a retired FBI agent. [10]
Sarah Margaret Qualley (pronounced / ˈ k w ɔː l i / KWAW-lee; [1] born October 23, 1994) [2] is an American actress. A daughter of actress Andie MacDowell, she trained as a ballet dancer in her youth.