H., Honigmann, John J., and Mead, Margaret. 1970. Synergy: Some Notes of Ruth Benedict. American Anthropologist, 72(2): 320–333. Mead, Margaret. 1959. Preface to Ruth Benedict's Patterns of Culture in Benedict 1959 (above). Mead, Margaret. 1959. "Search: 1920–1930". In Benedict 1959 (An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict, above). Modell, Judith Schachter. 1983. Ruth Benedict: Patterns of a Life University of Pennsylvania Press. Smithsonian Institution, Department of Anthropology. Guide to the Collections of the National Anthropological Archives (#L1). Young, Virginia Heyer. 2005. Ruth Benedict : Beyond Relativity, Beyond Pattern. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. . Further reading Babcock, Barbara. 1995. "Not in the First Person Singular" (reprinted in) Behar, Ruth and Deborah A. Gordon (eds.). Women Writing Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press. Bateson, Mary Catherine. 1984. With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. New York: William Morrow. Memoir of Margaret Mead by her daughter, documenting the relationship between Mead and Benedict. Geertz, Clifford. 1988. Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Handler, Richard. 1986. "Vigorous Male and Aspiring Female: Poetry, Personality, and Culture in Edward Sapir and Ruth Benedict" in Stocking, George (ed.). Malinowski, Rivers Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press. Handler, Richard. 1990. "Ruth Benedict and the Modernist Sensibility", in Manganaro, Marc (ed.). Modernist Anthropology: From Fieldwork to Text. Princeton University Press. pp. 163–180. Lapsley, Hilary. 1999. Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press. . Salamone, Frank A., 2018. "Life-affirming versus Life-denying Cultures: Ruth Benedict and Social Synergy" in Bérose, Encyclopédie internationale des histoires de l'anthropologie Stassinos, Elizabeth. 2007. "Culture and Personality In Henry's Backyard: Boasian War Allegories in Children's Science Writ Large Stories" in Darnell, Regna and Frederic W. Gleach (eds.). Histories of Anthropology Annual, vol. 2. University of Nebraska Press. . Stassinos, Elizabeth. 2009. "An Early Case of Personality: Ruth Benedict's Autobiographical Fragment and the Case of the Biblical 'Boaz in Darnell, Regna and Frederic W. Gleach (eds.). Histories of Anthropology vol. 5. University of Nebraska Press. . External links Ruth Benedict in the Vassar Encyclopedia The Races of Mankind Resources related to research: BEROSE - International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. "Benedict, Ruth (1887–1948)", Paris, 2018. . 1887 births 1948 deaths 20th-century American scientists 20th-century American women scientists Scientists from New York City American Japanologists American women anthropologists