Her early influences at the New School for social research included Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser, and in 1940, she published a book dedicated to the refutation of racism, Race: Science and Politics.
Her early influences at the New School for social research included Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser, and in 1940, she published a book dedicated to the refutation of racism, Race: Science and Politics. In addition to publishing poetry under the pseudonym Ann Singleton, her research in Native American mythology produced her dissertation, The Concept of the Guardian Spirit in North America, while a study of death rituals based on the works of Reo Fortune and Franz Boas led her to classify the Pueblo as Apollonian and the Plains Indians as Dinoysian in her masterwork, Patterns of Culture. For ten points, identify this American sociologist whose comission from the Office of War Information culminated in her study of Japanese culture, The Chrysanthemum and the Sword.
Her early influences at the New School for social research included Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser, and in 1940, she published a book dedicated to the refutation of racism, Race: Science and Politics.
Ruth {Benedict}