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(★)(Titulo original : 菊と刀［Kiku to Katana］) Este libro es version renovada del´HC-0050´.´HC-0290´es version en espanol de este libro. (1.Reprinted over fifity times,´The Chrysanthemum and the Sword´, the first significant work attempting to describe Japanese character and attitudes, remains a classic of cultural anthropology and a brilliant study of Japan during World War II. In 1944, at a time when the United States and Japan were at war and field work in Japan was impossible, Ruth Benedict was assigned by the US Office of War Information to´use all the techniques ［she］ could as a cultural anthropologist to spell out what the Japanese were like´. Although American stereotypes of the Japanese have changed a great deal since World War II, Benedict´s piquant observations on the Japanese family, its hierarchical society, the customs of marriage and child rearing, concepts like self-discipline and filial piety, and other notable attributes of the Japanese -gleaned from explorong the political, religious, and economic life of Japan from the seventh through the mid-twentieth century- remain relevant today. Benedict was puzzled about the paradoxes she observed, by a people so ready to die by the sword and yet so concerned with the beauty of the chrysanthemum. By examining seemingly isolated bits of behavior and fitting the details into a coherent overall pattern, she succeeds in sketching the main outlines of a society very unlike those found in the West. The result is a completely fascinating, incisive, and informative book on the mysteries of the Japanese character. 2.Ruth Benedict ［1887-1948］, one of the most eminent American anthropologists of the twentieth century, was born in New York City. In 1923, she received her doctorate from Columbia University, where she remained throughout her academiccarrer ; in 1948, she was promoted to full professor in the Faculty of Political Science, the first woman to achieve such status. She is widely known for her book´Patterns of Culture［1934］´, which explained the idea of ´culture´ to the lay person and became an American Classic.) |
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