Ruth Fultonová Benedictová Poradie kníh (chronologicky)

A timeless source of wisdom for people looking to lead a life of simplicity, purpose, and serenity.

The essential, cut-to-the-chase handbook to the Pacific Crest Trail, based on the comprehensive Wilderness Press guidebooks to the PCT, has been completely updated. Packed with trail-tested features, it’s useful both on and off the trail, covering pre-trip planning for resupply stops, how to set daily on-the-trail mileage goals by knowing trail gradient and the locations of campsites, water sources, and facilities, and how to easily calculate distances between any two points on the trail, and how to planning both north-bound and south-bound hiking trips.

Vzory kultúry sú dielom pre tých, ktorí chcú spoznať tajomstvo kultúrnej antropológie. Autorka vo svojej práci nachádza abstraktný jednotiaci rámec každej kultúry na úrovni subjektívneho myslenia vo vzoroch správania jej nositeľov. Svojím dielom významne prispela k udomácneniu antropologického chápania kultúry a ponúkla svoju predstavu o kultúre ako integrovanom celku.

"Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life." -- New York Times This remarkable introduction to cultural studies eloquently declares the role of culture in shaping human life. Renowned anthropologist Ruth Benedict compares three societies—the Zuni of the southwestern United States, the Kwakiutl of western Canada, and the Dobuans of Melanesia—demonstrating the diversity of behaviors within them. Her groundbreaking study reveals that each human culture is defined by a unique configuration of traits and examines the relationship between culture and the individual. Featuring prefatory remarks by Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, and Louise Lamphere, this provocative work ultimately explores what it means to be human. "That today the modern world is on such easy terms with the concept of culture . . . is in very great part due to this book." -- Margaret Mead "Benedict's work is foundational in teaching us the value of diversity. Her hope for the future resonates in the twenty-first century: that recognition of cultural relativity fosters appreciation for 'the coexisting and equally valid patterns of life which mankind has created from the raw materials of existence.'" -- from the new foreword by Louise Lamphere, past president of the American Anthropological Association. Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) was a leading anthropologist of the twentieth century, and her influential works

《菊与刀》是一本经典畅销书，是公认的研究日本文化的权威之所。读《菊与刀》，可以让你全面精确地了解日本和日本人一些奇怪的行为。为什么日本的明治维新会取得成功？日本人为什么要发动战争？他们是如何在战后迅速崛起的？日本人为何彬彬有礼而又倨傲蛮横？为何严谨恭顺而又放荡恣肆？为何顽固守旧而又勇于改革？他们为何既可以为天皇和国家剖腹又为何迅速停止抵抗成了美国的小弟？ 读《菊与刀》，还可以让你从另一个角度了解中国和我们自己。无论怎么说，日本文化曾深受中国文化的影响，日本人对于传统的感情和态度与同样处于新旧、东西、文化冲突的中国人有着相似的情绪，而日本人是如何对待他们的传统的？他们坚决捍卫的是什么？毫无顾忌地抛弃的又是什么？他们接受西方的是什么？排斥西方的又是什么？ 我们需要了解日本，了解这个强大阴险的邻居！我们更需要了解我们自己，了解他们曾经历过的困惑与取舍！ 作者：鲁思•本尼迪克特 (Ruth Benedict，1887-1948)，美国当代著名人类学家、民族学家。在二战将结束时，她受美国政府委托对日本的社会和民族性进行了详细地调查与研究，并以此研究成果作为美国政府制定战后对日政策的依据。这项成果就是《菊与刀》。