Ruth Fulton Benedict

Background

Benedict, Ruth Fulton was born on June 5, 1887 in New York, New York, United States. Daughter of Frederick S. and Beatrice J. (Shattuck) Fulton.

Education

Bachelor of Arts, Vassar College, 1909. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1923.

Career

Assistant professor, 1930-1936, associate professor, 1936-1948, professor, 1948. Field trips to American Indian tribes, 1922-1939. On leave with Bureau of Overseas Intelligence, O.W.I., 1943-1946.

Author: Patterns of Culture, 1934.

Zuni Mythology (2 volumes), 1935. Race: Science and Policies, 1940.

The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture, 1946. Home: 448 Central Park West, New York 25.

Office: Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, New New York

Achievements

• Ruth Fulton Benedict has been listed as a noteworthy anthropologist. by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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• book

  • Race: science and politics
  • Patterns of Culture
  • The Chrysanthemum and the Sword
  • Tales of the Cochiti Indians (Classic Reprint)
  • An Anthropologist at Work

Membership

• president

  American Ethnological Society , United States

  1927 - 1929

• president

  American Anthropological Association , United States

  1947

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  American Academy of Arts and Sciences , United States

  1947

Connections

Married Stanley R. Benedict, June 18, 1914 (died December 21, 1936).

Father:

Frederick South. Fulton

Mother:

Beatrice J. (Shattuck) Fulton

Spouse:

Stanley R. Benedict

References

• Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land (American Studies Series)
• Ruth Benedict: A Humanist in Anthropology (Columbia Classics in Anthropology)