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Alo Liliweri
Rozwoj nauki o komunikacji kulturowej (miedzykulturowej i miedzykulturowej) nie moze byc oddzielony od wkladu antropologow. Ksiazka ta zawiera wklad mysli Ruth Benedict, wielkiej antropologa, ktora opisuje status jednostki w ksztaltowaniu…
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Lo sviluppo della scienza della comunicazione culturale (interculturale e interculturale) non puo essere separato dal contributo degli antropologi. Questo libro contiene il contributo di pensiero di Ruth Benedict, una grande…
The development of cultural communication science (intercultural and cross-cultural) cannot be separated from contribution of anthropologists. This book contains the contribution of thought of Ruth Benedict, a great anthropologist who…
Margaret M. Caffrey
An intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an important and remarkable woman.
Margaret Mead
By weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), this work offers a portrait of a woman who overcame the barriers of sexism to become one…
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Ruth Benedict
Originally published in 1935, in this book, Dr Benedict offers an alternative method of anthropological study, maintaining that the aim of the anthropological investigator should be the discovery in the…
Originally published: Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1959.
Originally published in Boston by Houghton Mifflin Company 1946 –Title page verso.
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This book uses the method of cultural anthropology, starts from the perspective of the Japanese lifestyle and typical events, reveals the contradiction of Japanese characters…
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
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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…
A recognized classic of cultural anthropology, this book explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh century through the mid-twentieth, as well as personal family life.
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…
Lois W. Banner
A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when…
In science, race can be a useful concept - for specific, limited purposes. When race, as a way of classifying people, is drafted into the service of politics, religion, or…
Contains more stories than any other source of Pima tales, plus more of the songs and orations that accompanied a telling. It includes The Rafter , a host of ancillary…
Philipp Schweighauser
Boasian Verse explores the understudied poetic output of three major twentieth-century anthropologists: Edward Sapir, Ruth Fulton Benedict, and Margaret Mead.
A. Elisabeth Reichel
Writing Anthropologists, Sounding Primitives offers a contribution to the history of anthropology by synthesizing and applying insights from the history of writing, sound studies, and intermediality studies to poetry and…
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Ruth 1887-1948 Benedict
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
This work is in the public…
Benedict R. O'G. Anderson,Ruth Thomas McVey
Although numerous accounts have been published of the genesis and character of the attempted October 1965 coup in Indonesia, many important aspects of that affair still remain very unclear. The…
Harriet Harriss,James Benedict Brown,Ruth Morrow,James Soane
This book provides the first ever attempt to move the debate about gender in architecture beyond the tradition of gender-segregated diagnostic or critical discourse on the debate towards something more…
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Broad in scope, The Gilded Age brings together sixteen original essays that offer lively syntheses of modern scholarship while making their own interpretive arguments. These engaging pieces allow students to…
This book is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in tracing the genealogy of the Gregory family. Authored by Charles J. Thorpe, a noted genealogist and historian, the book provides…
Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia’s culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews. Published Cornell…
Indonesia is a semi-annual journal devoted to the timely study of Indonesia’s culture, history, government, economy, and society. It features original scholarly articles, interviews, translations, and book reviews. Published by…
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