The Chrysanthemum and the Sword: Patterns of Japanese Culture

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2005 - 324 עמודים

Essential reading for anyone interested in Japanese culture, this unsurpassed masterwork explores the political, religious, and economic life of Japan.

The World War II-era study by the cultural anthropologist Ruth Benedict paints an illuminating contrast between the culture of Japan and that of the United States. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a revealing look at how and why our cultures differ, making it the perfect introduction to Japanese history and customs.

This influential book shaped American ideas about Japanese culture during the occupation of Japan, and popularized the distinction between guilt cultures and shame cultures.

 

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Assignment Japan
1
The Japanese in the War
20
Taking Ones Proper Station
43
The Meiji Reform
76
Debtor to the Ages and the World
98
Repaying OneTenThousandth
114
The Repayment Hardest to Bear
133
Clearing Ones Name
145
The Circle of Human Feelings
177
The Dilemma of Virtue
195
SelfDiscipline
228
The Child Learns
253
The Japanese Since VJDay
297
Glossary
317
Index
321
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מידע על המחבר (2005)

Born in New York City, American anthropologist Ruth Benedict was educated at Vassar College and at Columbia University (Ph.D 1923) where she as a student of Franz Boas. Benedict taught English literature before turning to the social sciences. For several years Benedict taught at Columbia, where she was made a professor in 1948. Most of Benedict's fieldwork was with American Indians, and the two books that brought her fame-Patterns of Culture (1934) and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946)-are largely about cultures that she knew only secondhand. The Chrysanthemum and the Sword is a brilliant reconstruction of Japanese culture on the basis of wartime interviews with Japanese people who had been living in the United States for several decades, but it has been criticized for describing nearly dead patterns of Japanese social behavior. Benedict helped expand the scope of anthropology to include the importance of the role of culture.

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