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Ruth Benedict's Influence on Anthropology
i struggled as i was writing this on how much to focus on the many things you can criticize about Ruth Benedict's work because we are talking about anthropological texts from like a hundred years ago at a time when the field was early in its process of trying to break away. Margaret Mead and Charlene goes wrong on has really stuck in my head so sometimes i'll just be minding my own business and my brain is like Margaret Mead wrong on on that's great but then Suzanne goes please Ruth Benedict like it's the most obvious thing in the world I have a lot of love for that show there are many aspects of it that have not aged well and that episode has a lot of