Benedict, 29 years younger than Boas, was the deepest thinker of the group; her book Patterns of Culture (1934 ... ideas and making passionate love to Ruth Benedict, her teacher, who was also ...

RUTH BENEDICT, in a stimulating and at times provocative ... and the elements of any given culture under inspection evaluated exclusively in the terms of the culture to which they belong.

He states as his methodological ideal a synthesis of Malinowski's approach in “The Argonauts”with that of Ruth Benedict in “Patterns of Culture”, but his adherence to their methods is by ...