Anthropology and the Humanities by Ruth Benedict, edited and with an introduction by Alex Golub
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2013-12-20
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This number of the Savage Minds Occasional Paper Series features Ruth Benedict's “anthropology and the humanities.” This piece is the published version of the lecture Benedict delivered for her presidential address at the annual meeting of the American Anthropological association in 1947. In this piece, one of the last she wrote before she passed away, she argues that anthropologists can benefit from drawing on the methods of the humanities in addition to scientific methods. Benedict's argument is worth examining in its own terms, but it is also worth reading between the lines of her essay. In making her case for the humanities, Benedict implicitly describes anthropology’s core values. This piece is valuable, then, not only for its argument about the humanities, but because it gives us a summary of what one of our foundational figures considered the essence of anthropology to be.
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humanistic anthropology, humanities, William Shakespeare, George Santayana, Benedict, Ruth, 1887-1948, Literature and anthropology
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This work includes excerpts from Benedict, Ruth. 1948. Anthropology and the Humanities. American Anthropologist 50(4): 585-593.
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