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Ruth Benedict: Chrysanthemum and Sword

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The Ching Kalzung is a monumental book that marks a major draw in cultural anthropologists and is a book that anyone interested in Japan must read. Ruth Benedict, a global cultural anthropologist, elaborates on Japanese culture by applying the way that we compare with each other, which was developed earlier in the pattern of the culture. Benedict defines Japanese character as a paradox and contrasts it with the American guilt culture, looking for its causes in the shame culture. She thus approaches the actual understanding of Japanese culture with its differences in comparing American and Japanese cultures. In exploring Japan's political, religious, and economic lifestyles from the seventh to the mid-twenties, we see how Japanese views and norms have developed and they are reflected in the customs and manners of everyday life. In this process Benedict makes Japanese character more vivid by comparing it with American culture with various categories of social order, ethics, philosophy, sexistism, sexual norms, concepts of good and evil, integrity, self-respect, shame and guilt. Especially is the preset code of behavior being structured through strict discipline, and it is digging deeper into the process of Japanese contradictions. Benedict argues that Japan should look deeply at these cultural patterns and change its way of thinking.

Korean title: 국화와 칼

Korean author: 루스 베네딕트

Korean publisher: 연암서가

ISBN-13: 9791160870527

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JI*******
July 6, 2021

The work of Ruth Benedict was impressive, as well as the toxicity. There are many versions of the classic, and I recommend reading them in this version.

CL******
September 23, 2019

It's a military report to get the United States to submit during the Japanese and the American wars, and it's written by anthropologists. Read it for yourself.

JS****
August 29, 2019

My relationship with Japan is not strange. At this point, a new book was released that lit Japan. But it's not a new book, it'll be a retranslated book. This book is called the 11th translation of the same book, according to the Preamble of the almanac. The director says that the reason for this translation has been to add comments and terminology to the new generation, adding to it a new emphasis on the new reading of modern readers. The version that has come out of it, especially since most

JS****
August 29, 2019

This is the time to know Japan properly. I don't think it's a book you should read right now.

루스 베네딕트: 국화와 칼
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