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Ruth Benedict : stranger in this land / by Margaret M. Caffrey.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caffrey, Margaret M. (Margaret Mary), 1947- author.
- Series:
- American studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948.
- Benedict, Ruth.
- Anthropologists--United States--Biography.
- Anthropologists.
- Ethnology.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- social anthropology.
- ethnology.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Ethnology.
- Anthropology, Cultural.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 432 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, [1989]
- Summary:
- Poet, anthropologist, feminist -- Ruth Benedict was all these and much more. Born in the last years of the Victorian era, she came of age during the Progressive years and participated in inaugurating the modern era of American life. This book provides an intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an important and remarkable woman.
- Contents:
- Inner circle, outer circle
- Vassar
- The limits of the possible
- The search for place
- The social quest
- Mythology, religion, and culture
- The personal vision
- The personal search
- Patterns of culture: between America and anthropology
- The psychology of culture
- Academic politics
- The politics of culture
- The war years
- The last great vision.
- Notes:
- "First edition"--title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-419) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8227: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Caroline F. Schimmel bookplate on front pastedown. With dust jacket.
- ISBN:
- 0292746555
- 9780292746558
- OCLC:
- 18221724
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