It drew on John Embree's Suye Mura, and is remarkable for its keen insight despite its author's inability to conduct her own field research.
It drew on John Embree's Suye Mura, and is remarkable for its keen insight despite its author's inability to conduct her own field research. The material for it came from a two year period from 1943 to 1945 when its author served as a special advisor to the Office of War Information. It sought to explain the contradictions inherent in a culture that cherished flower cultivation yet gave top prestige to the warrior, and to predict the behavior of prisoners of war. FTP, name this classic anthropological study of Japanese culture written by Ruth Benedict.
It drew on John Embree's Suye Mura, and is remarkable for its keen insight despite its author's inability to conduct her own field research.
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