Ruth Benedict
A student of Franz Boas, known for her work on culture and personality, particularly 'Patterns of Culture' and 'The Chrysanthemum and the Sword'.
Quotes by Ruth Benedict
The study of anthropology is a study of human dignity.
The individual is a creative agent within his culture.
The study of culture is a study of human meaning.
The most important thing about a culture is its rituals.
The cultural pattern of a society is a way of organizing human experience.
The study of anthropology is a study of human connection.
The individual is a product of his history, but he also makes history.
The study of culture is a study of human imagination.
The most important thing about a culture is its myths.
The cultural pattern of a society is a way of transmitting knowledge from one generation to the next.
Culture is the frame we bend nature into.
No man ever looks at the world with pristine eyes.
The diversity of cultures is as much a natural phenomenon as the diversity of species.
We grow in culture and grow out of it.
The role of the anthropologist is to make the familiar strange and the strange familiar.
Racism is the dogma that one ethnic group is condemned by nature to congenital inferiority and another group is destined to congenital superiority.
The American Indian was a natural philosopher.
In world history, those who have helped to build the same culture are not necessarily of one race, and those of the same race have contributed to very different cultures.
The Japanese are a people who have learned to live in harmony with their environment.
Shame is an inherent part of Japanese culture, where actions are judged by their effect on the group.