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  2. Ruth Benedict - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  4. National character studies - Wikipedia

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    National character studies arose from a variety of approaches with Culture and Personality, including the configurationalist approach of Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict, the basic personality structure developed by Ralph Linton and Abram Kardiner, and the modal personality approach of Cora DuBois. These approaches disagreed with each other on ...

  5. Tales of the Cochiti Indians - Wikipedia

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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]

  6. Margaret Mead - Wikipedia

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    Following Ruth Benedict's example, Mead focused her research on problems of child rearing, personality, and culture. [29] She served as president of the Society for Applied Anthropology in 1950 [30] and of the American Anthropological Association in 1960.

  7. Apollonian and Dionysian - Wikipedia

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    Anthropologist Ruth Benedict used the terms to characterize cultures that value restraint and modesty (Apollonian) and ostentatiousness and excess (Dionysian). An example of an Apollonian culture in Benedict's analysis was the Zuñi people as opposed to the Dionysian Kwakiutl people. [11]

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  9. History of anthropology - Wikipedia

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    This was most obvious in the 'Culture and Personality' studies carried out by younger Boasians such as Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. Influenced by psychoanalytic psychologists including Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung , these authors sought to understand the way that individual personalities were shaped by the wider cultural and social forces in ...