Her research with various American Indian tribes in the Southwest led to her 1924 work Zuni Mythology.
She collaborated with Gene Weltfish on an attempt to dispel racism, "The Races of Mankind". Her research with various American Indian tribes in the Southwest led to her 1924 work Zuni Mythology. She studied New Guinea's Dobu culture and New Mexico's Pueblos in one work, which promoted cultural relativism and relied in part on the fieldwork of her mentor. A later work contrasted guilt and shame cultures and was written despite her lack of firsthand experience with the society in question. For 10 points, name this American anthropologist who wrote Patterns of Culture and studied Japanese society in The Crysanthemum and the Sword.
She collaborated with Gene Weltfish on an attempt to dispel racism, "The Races of Mankind".
Ruth Benedict