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Ruth Benedict: Margaret Mead
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According to Margaret Caffey's biography about Ruth Benedict, Mead became Benedict's intimate friend. Her first marriage with Luther Cressman, a minister and archaeologist, ended in 1928. In the same year she married Dr. Reo Fortune, with whom she published GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA (1930). It compared observations of Pacific Island life with contemporary American educational system.
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Weaving the thousands of documents together, Banner has written the first biography of Mead and Benedict, “Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict and Their Circle” (Alfred A. Knopf, 2003). This is the first work to include previously restricted private letters and papers of Mead and Benedict.
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A remarkable introduction to cultural studies as relevant today as it was in 1934, Ruth Benedict's groundbreaking study is the book that first brought the concept of "culture" to lay readers. In this fascinating work, Benedict compares the cultures of three peoples: the Kwakiutl of western Canada, the Zuni of the southwestern United States, and the Dobuans of Melanesia. Featuring an introduction by Franz Boas, a preface by Margaret Mead, and a foreword by Mary Catherine Bateson, Patterns of Culture shows the importance culture has on everyday life.
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[A]fter this flurry of substantial books, based on much the same material, one has to wonder if yet another book on Benedict is really needed. Virginia Heyer Young is conscious of this very question and differentiates the biographies and books on Benedicts relationship with Mead from her own, which represents Benedicts complete writings and research after Patterns of Culture (p. 35). Young focuses on writings and research from the last years of Benedicts life and on texts from Benedicts courses. As a student of Benedicts, Young ... presents rare insight into Benedict the teacher from the notes she has painstakingly collected from other former students to collate with her own student notes.
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The marriage brought Ruth Benedict material security, but life as a suburban housewife left her unfulfilled. Since her husband did not want her to work outside the home, she envisaged writing a series of biographies of "strong women" beginning with feminists Mary Wollstonecraft, Margaret Fuller, and Olive Schreiner. The project was never realized. Benedict completed a lengthy essay on Wollstonecraft but was unable to find a publisher for it. (Margaret Mead included it in An Anthropologist at Work [1959], a collection of Benedict's writings.) She did... begin publishing poetry under the pseudonyms Ruth Stanhope and Anne Singleton.
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A decade of research by a USC historian yields the first biography of anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict, two intellects with hidden lives and an intense union. Modeling themselves on one another, their friendship gave them confidence in an academic world ruled by men.
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