Maksel, Rebecca. “Love among anthropologists”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
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Ruth Benedict
Standard Name: Benedict, Ruth
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Mead | MM
had notable affairs with a female fellow undergraduate, Leone Newton
, and with fellow-anthropologist Reo Fortune
(who later became her second husband). Many of her professional colleagues throughout her career, both male and female... |
| Instructor | Zora Neale Hurston | Among her instructors were Franz Boas
and Ruth Benedict
, poet and author of Patterns of Culture (1934). Before graduating, Hurston travelled to the South on a Carter G. Woodson Foundation fellowship, in her first... |
| Instructor | Margaret Mead | After graduating from high school in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, MM
intended to go to Wellesley College
, her mother's alma mater, which was then an all-female institution. But her father refused to fund her higher... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Mead | Once again this book proved highly controversial. Banner, Lois W. Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle. Alfred A. Knopf, p. xii; 540 pp. 366 |
| Literary responses | Mary Wollstonecraft | Virginia Woolf
celebrated Wollstonecraft's immortality in 1929; Marjorie Bowen
wrote of her critically in 1937 yet entitled her work This Shining Woman. The future anthropologist Ruth Benedict
, with her own career yet to... |
| Textual Production | Amabel Williams-Ellis | She followed this with many more instructional works for children, which address such topics as human biology (in How You Began, 1928, and How You Are Made1932) and the relation of food to... |
| Textual Production | Margaret Mead | MM
published a study of Ruth Benedict
in the Leaders of Modern Anthropology series put out by Columbia University
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Timeline
1946: US anthropologist Ruth Benedict (1887-1948,...
Writing climate item
1946
US anthropologist Ruth Benedict
(1887-1948, mentor and close associate of Margaret Mead
) published her best-known work, The Crysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture.
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