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Partial Manuscript on Categories of Speech
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 20. Indian Mythology, Ethics -- Notes) (1929) , 3 page(s)
Three pages contain a brief, possibly partial, hand-written manuscript analyzing categories of speech - 'virtues, sins, kinds of people, kinds of status' - essentially as human artifacts, created by earlier generations for their own purposes in the same way the constellations and the zodiac were mapped out. And th...
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 20. Indian Mythology, Ethics -- Notes) (1929) , 3 page(s)
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Three pages contain a brief, possibly partial, hand-written manuscript analyzing categories of speech - 'virtues, sins, kinds of people, kinds of status' - essentially as human artifacts, created by earlier generations for their own purposes in the same way the constellations and the zodiac were mapped out. And that 'they impart upon us an illusion of permanence and reasonableness.' A third page is blank but for an ink stamp reading 'From the Pap...
Three pages contain a brief, possibly partial, hand-written manuscript analyzing categories of speech - 'virtues, sins, kinds of people, kinds of status' - essentially as human artifacts, created by earlier generations for their own purposes in the same way the constellations and the zodiac were mapped out. And that 'they impart upon us an illusion of permanence and reasonableness.' A third page is blank but for an ink stamp reading 'From the Papers of Ruth Benedict.'
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Date Written / Recorded
1929
Field of Study
Anthropology
Content Type
Research notes
Contributor
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Author / Creator
Ruth Benedict, 1887-1948
Topic / Theme
Anthropological linguistics
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Material sourced from the Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, Vassar College. Copyright © 2016 by Mary Catherine Bateson
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