One work by this thinker is a pamphlet that uses simple cartoons to show that IQ is based more on environment than genetics, while other works examine the cultures and behaviors of Thailand and Romania. This author argues that cultures choose certain traits from "a wide arc of human potentialities" in one work, and says that myths serve a "compensatory" purpose to make up for failures of everyday life in another work, Tales of the Cochiti, which was expanded four years l
One work by this thinker is a pamphlet that uses simple cartoons to show that IQ is based more on environment than genetics, while other works examine the cultures and behaviors of Thailand and Romania. This author argues that cultures choose certain traits from "a wide arc of human potentialities" in one work, and says that myths serve a "compensatory" purpose to make up for failures of everyday life in another work, Tales of the Cochiti, which was expanded four years later in a two volume collection on myths from another Pueblo tribe, the Zuni. In a more well-known work, she studied the reasons why American prisoners of war desired to hear from their family while POWs of another nation wished to remain ignorant of their kin's status. FTP, identify this anthropologist known for The Chrysanthemum and the Sword and Patterns of Culture.
One work by this thinker is a pamphlet that uses simple cartoons to show that IQ is based more on environment than genetics, while other works examine the cultures and behaviors of Thailand and Romania.
Ruth {Benedict}