Ruth Benedict

A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh century through the mid-twentieth, as well as personal family life.

Patterns of Japanese Culture

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Offers an analysis of three strongly contrasting primitive civilizations, showing how behavior is influenced by custom and tradition.

Patterns of Culture

Kultur Oruntuleri

Patrones De La Cultura Japonesa/ Patterns of Japanese Culture (Ciencias Sociales / Social Science)

El Crisantemo Y La Espada/ the Chrysanthemum and the Sword

Formen der japanischen Kultur

Chrysantheme und Schwert

Gene Weltfish

The Races of Mankind

An Anthropologist at Work

Thai Culture and Behavior

Ruth Benedict se detém na etnografia de povos indígenas norte-americanos e afirma que cada cultura reúne elementos de origens díspares, que de certa forma são integrados segundo um padrão particular. Essa perspectiva lhe permite reelaborar a questão, muito debatida na época, acerca de indivíduos "desajustados". Este ensaio integra o livro Cultura e Personalidade.

Um ensaio

Configurações de cultura na América do Norte

Ju yu dao

The Concept of the Guardian Spirit in North America

General Anthropology

padrões da cultura japonesa

O crisântemo e a espada

Race: Science and Politics

In science, race can be a useful concept—for specific, limited purposes. When race, as a way of classifying people, is drafted into the service of politics, religion, or any belief system, then danger follows. That is the focus of this classic repudiation of racism, which is as readable and timely now as when it first appeared. Race: Science and Politics was first published in 1940, in response to the global rise of fascism and its pseudoscientific rationales for marginalizing and even exterminating “inferior” people. Writing for a general audience, Ruth Benedict ranges across the history of Western thought and research on race to illuminate rifts between the facts of race and the claims of racism. Rather than take issue only with the Nazis and their allies, Benedict set out to show that all racist beliefs are objectively groundless—and that is the key to the book’s ongoing relevance. The book’s bonus content includes The Races of Mankind, a pamphlet-length distillation of the book with its own controversial role in dismantling racist theory. This edition also includes a new foreword by Judith Schachter. An anthropologist, historian, and Benedict biographer, Schachter discusses the book’s importance for current readers. Also included is a foreword by anthropologist Margaret Mead from 1958, a time when colonial ties around the world were unravelling and civil rights unrest was a daily occurrence in the United States.

Science and Politics

Race

Rai Mra Lvaṅʻ

The chrysanthemum and the sword

Gandhamā nhaṅʻ dhāʺ

This book is a profound and comprehensive presentation of Japanese daily manners and customs, a study and history of human thought discussing Japan's conduct of World War ll. Author Ruth Benedict revealed the intricate views of the Japanese & more with political, religious and economic issues as well as sexual conduct, Geisha, prostitution, and marriage in their daily lives. A classic of cultural anthropology.

Vzory kultúry

Il crisantemo e la spada. Modelli di cultura giapponese

Ruth Benedict

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