Chrysanthemum and the Sword Patterns of Japanese Culture

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.Benedict, Ruth is the author of 'Chrysanthemum and the Sword Patterns of Japanese Culture', published 1989 under ISBN 9780395500750 and ISBN 0395500753.