While serving as the editor of The Journal of American Folklore from 1925-1940, this thinker encouraged the growth of the Federal Writers' Project and championed "applied folklore."
While serving as the editor of The Journal of American Folklore from 1925-1940, this thinker encouraged the growth of the Federal Writers' Project and championed "applied folklore." This anthropologist worked with Erna Gunther and Gene Weltfish to catalogue the mythology of the Southwest Indians. This thinker borrowed Nietzsche's Apollonian and Dionysian to analyze the Dobu, the Kwakiutl and the title tribe. A 1946 study by this author of Zuni Mythology and Patterns of Culture distinguished between guilt cultures and shame cultures. That work was written at the behest of the Office of War Intelligence and is a study of Japanese society. For 10 points, name this author of The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.
While serving as the editor of The Journal of American Folklore from 1925-1940, this thinker encouraged the growth of the Federal Writers' Project and championed "applied folklore."
Ruth Benedict