Ruth Benedict Libros

En junio de 1944, las autoridades estadounidenses ­desconcertadas ante las dificultades para predecir el comportamiento del enemigo en el Pacífico y necesitadas de un repertorio de soluciones para acelerar la victoria primero e institucionalizar la ocupación después­ encargaron a RUTH BENEDICT un estudio de antropología cultural sobre las normas y valores de la sociedad japonesa. Resultado del trabajo llevado a cabo, EL CRISANTEMO Y LA ESPADA ­título que hace referencia a las paradojas del carácter y el estilo de vida japoneses­ se convirtió prácticamente desde su aparición y hasta el día de hoy en un clásico imprescindible para aproximarse al conocimiento de los complejos patrones de la cultura japonesa, que explican no sólo el militarismo de tiempos pasados, sino también la fabulosa expansión pacífica llevada a cabo por el pueblo japonés desde el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

The essential, cut-to-the-chase handbook to the Pacific Crest Trail, based on the comprehensive Wilderness Press guidebooks to the PCT, has been completely updated. Packed with trail-tested features, it’s useful both on and off the trail, covering pre-trip planning for resupply stops, how to set daily on-the-trail mileage goals by knowing trail gradient and the locations of campsites, water sources, and facilities, and how to easily calculate distances between any two points on the trail, and how to planning both north-bound and south-bound hiking trips.

A timeless source of wisdom for people looking to lead a life of simplicity, purpose, and serenity.

"Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life." -- New York Times This remarkable introduction to cultural studies eloquently declares the role of culture in shaping human life. Renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict compares three societies—the Zuni of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of Melanesia—demonstrating the diversity of behaviors within them. Her groundbreaking study reveals that each human culture is defined by a unique configuration of traits and examines the relationship between culture and the individual. Featuring prefatory remarks by Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Louise Lamphere, this provocative work ultimately explores what it means to be human. "That today the modern world is on such easy terms with the concept of culture . . . is in very great part due to this book." -- Margaret Mead "Benedict's work is foundational in teaching us the value of diversity. Her hope for the future resonates in the twenty-first century: that recognition of cultural relativity fosters appreciation for 'the coexisting and equally valid patterns of life which mankind has created from the raw materials of existence.'" -- from the new foreword by Louise Lamphere, past president of the American Anthropological Association. Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) was a leading anthropologist of the twentieth century, and her influential works

Vzory kultúry sú dielom pre tých, ktorí chcú spoznať tajomstvo kultúrnej antropológie. Autorka vo svojej práci nachádza abstraktný jednotiaci rámec každej kultúry na úrovni subjektívneho myslenia vo vzoroch správania jej nositeľov. Svojím dielom významne prispela k udomácneniu antropologického chápania kultúry a ponúkla svoju predstavu o kultúre ako integrovanom celku.