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Ruth Benedict - Stranger in This Land (Paperback)
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Ruth Benedict - Stranger in This Land (Paperback)
Series: American Studies Series
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Poet, anthropologist, feminist-Ruth Fulton Benedict was all of
these and much more. Born into the last years of the Victorian era,
she came of age during the Progressive years and participated in
inaugurating the modern era of American life. Ruth Benedict:
Stranger in This Land provides an intellectual and cultural history
of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an
important and remarkable woman. As a Lyricist poet, Ruth Benedict
helped define Modernism. As an anthropologist, she wrote the
classic Patterns of Culture and at one point was considered the
foremost anthropologist in the United States-the first woman ever
to attain such status. She was an intellectual and an artist living
in a time when women were not encouraged to be either. In this
fascinating study, Margaret Caffrey attempts to place Benedict in
the cultural matrix of her time and successfully shows the way in
which Benedict was a product of and reacted to the era in which she
lived. Caffrey goes far beyond providing simple biographical
material in this well-written interdisciplinary study. Based on
exhaustive research, including access for the first time to the
papers of Margaret Mead, Benedict's student and friend, Caffrey is
able to put Benedict's life clearly in perspective. By identifying
the family and educational influences that so sharply influenced
Benedict's psychological makeup, the author also closely analyzes
the currents of thought that were strong when Victorianism
paralleled the Modernism that figured in Benedict's life work. The
result is a richly detailed study of a gifted woman. This important
work will be of interest to students of Modernism, poetry, and
women's studies, as well as to anthropologists.
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