Who is the colleague of Ruth Benedict who is know for the development of the discipline of linguistics?
Tales of the Cochiti Indians Tales of the Cochiti Indians is a 1931 work by Ruth Benedict. It collects the folk tales of the Cochiti Puebloan peoples in New Mexico. The book is considered an important work in the discipline of feminist anthropology. Following development of the "culture and personality" school of anthropology by her colleague Edward Sapir and influenced by Margaret Mead, Benedict sought psychological patterns in the stories she collected.
Penelope Eckert Penelope "Penny" Eckert is a professor of linguistics at Stanford University in Stanford, California, where she holds the position of Albert Ray Lang Professor of Linguistics. She is a prominent scholar of variationist sociolinguistics, and is the author of several scholarly works on language and gender.