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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture is a 1946 study of Japan by American anthropologist Ruth Benedict compiled from her analyses of Japanese culture during World War II for the U.S. Office of War Information. Her analyses were requested in order to understand and predict the behavior of the Japanese during the war by ...
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 ...
Major works on national character include: Ruth Benedict's The Chrysanthemum and the Sword on Japanese national character. Because researchers could not enter Japan at the time, Benedict conducted her research as "fieldwork-at-a-distance" through literature, film, and Japanese expatriates (mostly internment camp victims) in the United States.
The terminology was popularized by Ruth Benedict in The Chrysanthemum and the Sword, who described American culture as a "guilt culture" and Japanese culture as a "shame culture". [ 5 ] [ 6 ] Guilt societies
The title of the episode is a direct reference to The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture (1946), by anthropologist Ruth Benedict. Benedict wrote the influential study of Japan 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 ...
"We got engaged earlier in the year, right before we welcomed our daughter Margaret into the world," Benedict tells PEOPLE
In Ruth Benedict's The Emergence and Other Kachina Tales, people initially dwelt crowded tightly together in total darkness in a place deep in the earth known as the fourth world. The daylight world then had hills and streams but no people to live there or to present prayer sticks to Awonawilona , the Sun and creator .
Cameron Diaz is "Back In Action" after a decade-long break from Hollywood. The star of "Back In Action," which streams Jan. 17 on Netflix, is set to make her film return after 10 years. In the ...