Ruth Benedict by Virginia Heyer Young
Presents a biography of Ruth Benedict, the renowned anthropologist, by her student, drawing on her correspondence and work with Margaret Mead, and on course notes. This book finds the ordering patterns in the materials Benedict left in her papers and shows that she was embarking on new interpretive directions in the last decade of her life.
“This new and detailed biography offers many reasons why [Ruth Benedict] left such a persisting legacy in our field. . . The book presents a much more rounded view of her contribution to the field than has been available before, largely through the thinking she presented to her students and colleagues. Even more valuable for future research is that almost half of the book is made up of the raw data on which it draws. Course `texts’ and references are available up until early in the year she died, and Young has certainly brought us a wonderful insight into the almost daily thinking of an extraordinary scholar.”—Joy Hendry, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Virginia Heyer Young is a lecturer emerita in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780803249196 |
| ISBN 10 | 0803249195 |
| Title | Ruth Benedict |
| Author | Virginia Heyer Young |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | University of Nebraska Press |
| Year published | 2005-07-01 |
| Number of pages | 382 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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