Table of Contents

Part I; Search: 1920—1930; The Vision in Plains Culture; A Matter for the Field Worker in Folklore 1; Cups of Clay; Counters in the Game; The Uses of Cannibalism; Selections from the Correspondence of Edward Sapir with Ruth Benedict 1922-1923; Two Diaries; Part II; Anne Singleton 1889-1934; The Story of My Life . . .; The Sense of Symbolism 1; Journals; Preface to an Anthology; Selections from the Correspondence of Edward Sapir with Ruth Benedict 1923—1938; Part III; Patterns of Culture 1922-1934; A Brief Sketch of Serrano Culture; They Dance for Rain in Zuñi; An Introduction to Zuñi Mythology 1; Dominant Cultural Attitudes in Manu’a; Psychological Types in the Cultures of the Southwest; Anthropology and the Abnormal; Selections from Correspondence to and from the Field 1924-1934; Part IV; The Years as Boas’ Left Hand; The Bond of Fellowship; Race Prejudice in the United States; Postwar Race Prejudice; The Natural History of War; Ideologies in the Light of Comparative Data; Primitive Freedom; Selections from the Correspondence between Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas 1923-1940; Franz Boas: An Obituary; Part V; The Postwar Years: The Gathered Threads; Recognition of Cultural Diversities in the Postwar World 1; Child Rearing in Certain European Countries; Anthropology and the Humanities; Part VI; Selected Poems 1941; Mary Wollstonecraft;

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Ruth Benedict

Reviews

-This is a warm and human document, edited by one who was always close to Ruth Benedict.- --Marvin K. Opler, American Anthropologist -[A] fascinating source of insights into a remarkable woman presented by another remarkable woman, it will well reward any reader.- --Julian H. Steward, Science -Margaret Mead was first her pupil and her lifelong friend and colleague; now as her literary executor and biographer, she has assembled the best of Ruth's papers, her journals, her letters, and her hitherto published or unpublished poems into a volume which makes fascinating reading for students of the humanities and the social sciences.- --William N. Fenton, Journal of American Folklore -This book is a personal memoir to an unusual and creative personality who was a loved friend and colleague of its editor and part author.- --A. I. Richards, American Journal of Sociology -The descriptions of Benedict's career and influence are greatly enriched by selections from personal documents of hers... From these materials we can reconstruct the main outlines of a life.- --Donald Cook, New Republic

"This is a warm and human document, edited by one who was always close to Ruth Benedict." --Marvin K. Opler, American Anthropologist "[A] fascinating source of insights into a remarkable woman presented by another remarkable woman, it will well reward any reader." --Julian H. Steward, Science "Margaret Mead was first her pupil and her lifelong friend and colleague; now as her literary executor and biographer, she has assembled the best of Ruth's papers, her journals, her letters, and her hitherto published or unpublished poems into a volume which makes fascinating reading for students of the humanities and the social sciences." --William N. Fenton, Journal of American Folklore "This book is a personal memoir to an unusual and creative personality who was a loved friend and colleague of its editor and part author." --A. I. Richards, American Journal of Sociology "The descriptions of Benedict's career and influence are greatly enriched by selections from personal documents of hers... From these materials we can reconstruct the main outlines of a life." --Donald Cook, New Republic

"This is a warm and human document, edited by one who was always close to Ruth Benedict." --Marvin K. Opler, American Anthropologist "[A] fascinating source of insights into a remarkable woman presented by another remarkable woman, it will well reward any reader." --Julian H. Steward, Science "Margaret Mead was first her pupil and her lifelong friend and colleague; now as her literary executor and biographer, she has assembled the best of Ruth's papers, her journals, her letters, and her hitherto published or unpublished poems into a volume which makes fascinating reading for students of the humanities and the social sciences." --William N. Fenton, Journal of American Folklore "This book is a personal memoir to an unusual and creative personality who was a loved friend and colleague of its editor and part author." --A. I. Richards, American Journal of Sociology "The descriptions of Benedict's career and influence are greatly enriched by selections from personal documents of hers... From these materials we can reconstruct the main outlines of a life." --Donald Cook, New Republic