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PhD Anthropology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Ruth Fulton Benedict 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 she studied under Franz Boas. She received her Ph.D. and joined the faculty in 1923. Margaret Mead, with whom she shared a romantic relationship, and Marvin Opler were among her students and colleagues.

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Ruth Benedict's Published Works

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The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1947) (601)
Continuities and Discontinuities in Cultural Conditioning (1938) (305)
Anthropology and the Abnormal (1934) (280)
Race: Science and Politics (1940) (117)
Witchcraft in Old and New England (1930) (101)
The concept of the guardian spirit in North America (1931) (92)
CONFIGURATIONS OF CULTURE IN NORTH AMERICA (1932) (73)
THE VISION IN PLAINS CULTURE (1922) (48)
Psychological types in the cultures of the southwest. (34)
Primitive Mentality. By Lucien Lévy-Bruhl. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1923. $5.00 (1925) (34)
Second-degree heart block and Wenckebach phenomenon associated with anxiety. (1952) (29)
FRANZ BOAS. (1943) (26)
ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE HUMANITIES1 (1948) (22)
A BRIEF SKETCH OF SERRANO CULTURE (1924) (21)
Anthropology and the humanities. (1948) (13)
The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Patterns of Japanese Culture (1954) (12)
SEX IN PRIMITIVE SOCIETY (1939) (12)
Zuni Mythology Vol.1 (1935) (12)
Transmitting Our Democratic Heritage in the Schools (1943) (12)
Thai Culture and Behavior: An Unpublished War Time Study, Dated September, 1943 (1953) (10)
Secret Societies: A Cultural Study of Fraternalism in the United States. (1942) (10)
THE VIKING FUND (1947) (10)
In Henry's backyard : the races of mankind (1948) (9)
The study of cultural patterns in European nations. (1946) (9)
Recognition of Cultural Diversities in the Postwar World (1943) (8)
Eight Stories from Acoma (7)
Chrysanthemum and the Sword. Patterns of Japanese Culture, Cleveland, New York (The World Publishing Company) 1946. (1946) (6)
Franz Boas, 1858-1942 (1943) (6)
TWO PATTERNS OF INDIAN ACCULTURATION (1943) (6)
Patterns of culture / by Ruth Benedict (1957) (5)
Racism Is Vulnerable (1946) (4)
Race and cultural relations : America's answer to the myth of a master race (1949) (3)
MEXICO, CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: Chan Kom: a Maya Village. Robert Redfield and Alfonso Villa R. (1937) (3)
Race Problems in America (1941) (3)
MARITAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IN BILATERAL SOCIETY (1936) (2)
Review of The Neurotic Personality of Our Time. (1938) (2)
Effect of conscious anxiety on the electrocardiogram. (1951) (2)
A Reply to Dr. Aginsky (1939) (1)
Review of Sun Chief: The autobiography of a Hopi Indian. (1943) (1)
Review of Becoming a Kwoma: Teaching and Learning in a New Guinea Tribe. (1942) (1)
Hawaii's Japanese.@@@The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. (1947) (1)
: An Apache Life-Way: The Economic, Social, and Religious Institutions of the Chiricahua Indians . Morris E. Opler. (1942) (1)
NORTH AMERICA: Californian Indian Nights Entertainments, compiled by Edward W. Gifford and Gwendoline Harris Block. (1931) (1)
Patterns of Culture, New York (The New American Library), 1955. (1955) (1)
A Matter for the Field Worker in Folk-Lore (1)
The Study of Man.Ralph Linton (1937) (0)
Review of The Science of Man in the World Crisis. (1945) (0)
Review Fromm, E.: Escape from Freedom (1941a, English) (1942) (0)
GENERAL: Sex and Culture. J. D. Unwin. (1935) (0)
AMERICA: The North American Indian. Edward S. Curtis (1925) (0)
Seventy-one years and a huge disciplinary chasm separate (0)
MISCELLANEOUS: Orpheus, Myths of the World. Padraic Colum. (1931) (0)
: Dancing Gods: Indian Ceremonials of New Mexico and Arizona . Erna Fergusson. (1932) (0)
NORTH AMERICA: Eskimo. Peter Freuchen. Translated by A. Paul Maerker‐Branden and Elsa Branden (1932) (0)
Different Cultures Have Different Moral Codes (0)
Zuni Mythology@@@Zuni Texts (1937) (0)
Review Fromm, E.: Man for Himself. An Inquiry into the Psychology of Ethics (1947a, English) (1948) (0)
Message from French Prison Camp: "Help Now!" (1940) (0)
Culture and Motivation. (1950) (0)
: The Road of Life and Death, a Ritual Drama of the American Indians . Paul Radin. (1947) (0)

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