Ruth Benedictová v Československu (léto 1948)

• Authors: Patricie Kubáčková

Title variants

EN

Ruth Benedict in Czechoslovakia (summer 1948)

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The famous book of Ruth Benedict (hereafter RB) The Chrysanthemum and the Sword about the patterns of Japanese culture was for the first time published in autumn of the year 1946 (two years ago, for the first time also translation to Czech). Had not RB died prematurely two years later, in September 1948, maybe we could today flip through the pages of similar book on the patterns of Czech national character, viewed by the American cultural anthropologist, as Czechoslovakia was one of the several countries that were, after the World War II, investigated at a distance within the frame of the interdisciplinary project (Columbia University Research in Contemporary Cultures), initiated by RB, who for some time herself participated in it.

Keywords

EN

Ruth Benedict; UNESCO seminary in Poděbrady in 1948; method of the research of national character; the distance

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 102
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 257-279
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Patricie Kubáčková

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic