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For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a personality writ large. Includes
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RUTH BENEDICT (1887 1948) was one of the twentieth century s foremost anthropologists and helped to shape the discipline in the United States and around the world. Benedict was a student and later a colleague of Franz Boas at Columbia, where she taught from 1924. Margaret Mead was one of her students. Benedict s contributions to the field of cultural anthropology are often cited today.
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Patterns of Culture
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