Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict , born Fulton (June 6th 1887, New York, the United States - September 17th 1948, id.) is a Anthropologue, American Biographe and Poétesse.

Raise " father of anthropology américaine" , Franz Boas, of which it shared the egalitarian visions on anthropology, and partner of studies (then colleague) of Margaret Mead and Marvin Opler.

Its work Patterns off Culture (1934) appeared during several years in the programme of studies of anthropology of the American universities and was translated into fourteen languages. It poses there the bases of a cultural Relativisme in the design in particular of morality at various civilizations.

the Chrysanthemum and the saber

Benedict is known not only for Patterns off Culture but also for the Chrysanthemum and the saber , its study of the company and the culture Japan ease which it published in 1946, following its research at the time of the war américano-Japanese woman.

This book is a work of remote anthropology. Benedict, in the incapacity to go to the site, studied the Japanese culture through its literature, of the press articles, films, reports, etc the study aimed to determine which cultural elements could contribute to the supposed aggressiveness of the Japanese and to detect the possible weaknesses of the Japanese company.

Benedict played an important role in the handing-over in value of the Empereur of Japan in the Japanese popular culture, and it recommended to President Franklin D. Roosevelt which it authorizes the continuation of the reign of the emperor if this one were required at the time of an offer of rendering of the Japanese.

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is "length since… discredited since Benedict had direct No experiment in Japan" and described it ace " considered shallow and overtly racist", the Japanese ambassador to Pakistan stated this in has public address:

In 1946, Ruth Benedict, has well-known farming American anthropologist, published has book one Japan entitled “The Chrysanthemum and The Sword”, which has been has off must reading for many students Japanese studies.

Other Japanese who cuts read this work, according to Margaret Mead, found it one the whole accurate goal somewhat " moralistic." Sections off the book were mentioned in Takeo DOI 'S book, The Anatomy off Dependence, where He use nap off her concepts to expand upon his ideas, ace well ace giving has off critical the concepts covered in the book. -->

The book is always regarded as traditional today in spite of the material changes which have occurred in the Japanese culture since the post-war period.

Anecdotes

It sometimes wrote under the Pseudonyme of Anne Singleton.

See too

Shame: elements of classification of the cultures by Ruth Benedict according to the principle of shame, culpability.
cultural Relativisme

External bond

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