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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 ...
Benedict was married to Mollie Benedict from 1995 to 2019 and together they have two children: Audrey and Calvin. Benedict is in a relationship with his Supernatural co-star, Ruth Connell. They have a daughter, who was born in January 2024. [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]
He also trained John R. Swanton (who studied with Boas at Columbia for two years before receiving his doctorate from Harvard in 1900), Paul Radin (1911), Ruth Benedict (1923), Gladys Reichard (1925) who had begun teaching at Barnard College in 1921 and was later promoted to the rank of professor, Ruth Bunzel (1929), Alexander Lesser (1929 ...
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]
According to Ruth Bunzel's Introduction to Zuni Ceremonialism, the Kachina Society is responsible for performing the rites of the Kachina. Males are initiated into the society by the age of 12. The Lost Children instructed the Zuni to copy their costumes, headdresses, and dances, when they would be with them in spirit.
Lewin is four times a recipient of the Ruth Benedict Prize: for two monographs, Lesbian Mothers: Accounts of Gender in American Culture (1992) and Gay Fatherhood: Narratives of Family and Citizenship in America (2010) and two edited volumes, Out in Public: Reinventing Lesbian/Gay Anthropology in a Globalizing World (co-edited with William L. Leap) (2009) and Out in Theory: The Emergence of ...
Smith married Ruth Benedict Smith. [11] They had two children, Harriet J. Smith and Nathaniel Benedict Smith. [12]Smith was the brother of Nathan Smith, United States Senator from Connecticut, and the uncle of Truman Smith, United States Senator from Connecticut.