For fifteen years editor of the Journal of American Folklore, this anthropologist was greatly influenced by the lectures of Elsie Clews Parsons while enrolled at the New School for Social Research.
For fifteen years editor of the Journal of American Folklore, this anthropologist was greatly influenced by the lectures of Elsie Clews Parsons while enrolled at the New School for Social Research. The book Tales of the Cochiti Indians came eight years after gaining a Ph.D. for the thesis The Concept of the Guardian Spirit in North America. Race: Science and Politics was her attack on racism, but she is better known for works like Zuni Mythology and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword. FTP, who was this anthropologist, the author of Patterns of Culture?
For fifteen years editor of the Journal of American Folklore, this anthropologist was greatly influenced by the lectures of Elsie Clews Parsons while enrolled at the New School for Social Research.
Ruth Benedict