Contributor biographical information for The chrysanthemum and the sword : patterns of Japanese culture / Ruth Benedict ; with a foreword by Ezra F. Vogel.
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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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Japan -- Civilization.
National characteristics, Japanese.