Portrait of Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), US anthropologist. Benedict was a leading figure in the concept of 'culture', the cultivation of human potentia

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Portrait of Ruth Benedict (1887-1948), US anthropologist. Benedict was a leading figure in the concept of 'culture', the cultivation of human potentiality both within an individual and within larger social groups. Benedict championed the cultural (as opposed to racial) determination of human behaviour according to the concept of 'patterning'.

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