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Ruth Nanda Anshen (1900–2003)

Autore di Letters From the Field, 1925-1975

17+ opere 227 membri 3 recensioni

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Opere di Ruth Nanda Anshen

Opere correlate

L'arte di amare (1956) — Postfazione, alcune edizioni4,207 copie
Fisica e filosofia: la rivoluzione nella scienza moderna (1958) — Introduzione, alcune edizioni897 copie
Che cosa significa pensare? (1968) — A cura di — 697 copie
Mito e realtà (1963) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni682 copie
My Search for Absolutes (1967) — A cura di, alcune edizioni103 copie
Man, nature, and God : a quest for life's meaning (1962) — A cura di, alcune edizioni35 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico
Anshen, Ruth Nanda
Data di nascita
1900-06-14
Data di morte
2003-12-02
Sesso
female
Nazionalità
USA
Luogo di nascita
Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
Istruzione
Boston University (PhD)
Attività lavorative
philosopher
editor
Organizzazioni
Royal Society of Arts
American Philosophical Association
History of Science Society
International Philosophical Society
Metaphysical Society of America
Premi e riconoscimenti
FRSA
Breve biografia
Ruth Nanda Anshen was born in Lynn, Massachusetts. Her mother Sarah Yaffe Anshen was a poet. She earned a PhD in philosophy at Boston University in the late 1930s, working Alfred North Whitehead. In 1940, she began editing the Science of Culture series, which for two decades brought together essays by thinkers such as Albert Einstein, Margaret Mead, Jonas Salk, and Thomas Mann. She also edited the Perspectives in Humanism, Religious Perspective, and World Perspective series, as well as a 30-volume collection of autobiographies called Credo Perspectives.

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Margaret Mead was famous for keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends as we see in this collection of wonderfully revealing correspondence from the field. Written over a period of half a century, these letters to friends, family, and colleagues detail her first fieldwork in Samoa and go on to record her now famous anthropological endeavors in mainland New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali. Enhanced by photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny, and often poetic letters tell us much about Mead's passion for and understanding of preliterate cultures. But they are equally valuable as a fundamental text on the science -- and art -- of anthropology. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Jan Morris and Mead's daughter. Mary Catherine Bateson.… (altro)
 
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Alhickey1 | Mar 1, 2020 |
The mystery of iniquity examined from more than than St. Augustine's angles. Dense and provocative.
 
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kencf0618 | Mar 5, 2006 |

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Opere
17
Opere correlate
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Utenti
227
Popolarità
#99,086
Voto
3.9
Recensioni
3
ISBN
23
Lingue
1

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