Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, December 1st, 2006
MEAD, MARGARET. Ruth Benedict: a humanist in anthropology. xlvi, 180 pp., illus., bibliogrs. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2005. [pounds sterling]42.50 (cloth), [pounds sterling]16.00 (paper)
Columbia University Press has reissued Margaret Mead's 1974 memoir of Ruth Benedict with her selected passages from Benedict's work, along with informative new forewords by Lois W. Banner and Nancy Lutkehaus. This memoir by her teacher, collaborator, friend, and briefly her lover is a closely observed portrait. In her letters to Mead, Benedict had expressed greater empathy than to any other correspon...
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