This author's dissertation about the "concept of the guardian spirit" discusses the cultural implications of individual religious experience. This author also attacked fascism and claimed that all races have the same intelligence and blood composition in a collaboration with Gene Weltfish, The Races of Mankind, and critiqued racism in Race: Science and Politics. She applie
This author's dissertation about the "concept of the guardian spirit" discusses the cultural implications of individual religious experience. This author also attacked fascism and claimed that all races have the same intelligence and blood composition in a collaboration with Gene Weltfish, The Races of Mankind, and critiqued racism in Race: Science and Politics. She applied Nietzsche's concept of Apollonian and Dionysian to the rituals of Native Americans, and in another work sought to understand behavioral differences between POWs from two countries in WWII. FTP, name this American anthropologist who never visited Japan but authored The Chrysanthemum and the Sword and Patterns of Culture.
This author's dissertation about the "concept of the guardian spirit" discusses the cultural implications of individual religious experience.
Ruth {Benedict}