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(★)´HC-0269´ es version renovada de este libro. ´HC-0290´ es version en castellano de este libro. (The war and the peace have both made Japan important to the United States. Thousands of Americans have been here since the war and thousands more will come. The ties now being forged between the two countries will have great consequences as time goes on. We cannot afford to dismiss the Japanese. We must know their strengths and their weaknesses. In this book an anthropologist writes of their view of life and of themselves. She sketches in the main outlines of their society and then describes their curious system of practical ethics, their ideas of good and bad, and the disciplines which make them able to live according to their code. The book is of interest as a contribution to the history of human thought. It is a suggestive guide for nations of the West in their cooperation with Japan. It is also a completely fascinating, incisive and profoundly informative book on what makes the Japanese so uniquely Japanese. ◆About the Author : The late Ruth Benedict, one of America´s greatest anthropologists, was interested all her life in the stamp each nation or tribe puts upon its men and women and children. She spent years in Europe, living with Swiss, German, Italian and English families. Later she lived for several years in California, where she first became interested in the Japanese, Chinese and Koreans. She wanted to know more about how like and how different people in different cultures could be, and she discovered anthropology. From that time, and for twenty years afterwards, she worked closely with Franz Boas, the famous anthropologist and scholar. She herself trained students who have studied tribes in the Pacific Islands, in Africa, and in North and South America. She wrote ´Patterns of Culture´ and is well known for her book on race : ´Race : Science and Politics´, and the pamphlet, ´Races of Mankind´. During the war she worked for the Office of War Information on occupied and enemy countries. It was while she was doing this war work that she went back to her earlier interest in the Japanese and produced the truly definitive study, ´The Chrysanthemum and the Sword´.) |
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