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This 5 page paper presents a biographical sketch of this famous anthropologist and expounds on her major contributions. Many of her publications are mentioned and discussed in respect to their importance. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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New York, Missouri, and Minnesota (McHenry, 1995). She was moved several times by her widowed mother who went from teaching job to teaching job, and finally settle
on becoming a librarian in Buffalo (1995). Her difficult childhood that left her with psychological scars did not destroy her and she managed to go to college and graduate
from Vassar in 1909 (1995). She was also deaf and this impacted her life a great deal ("Benedict," 2000). After living in Europe for a years time, she
moved back to the states and settled in California, where she taught in a girls schools (McHenry, 1995). She soon married a biochemist named Stanley R. Benedict in June of
1914 and then she returned to New York with him (1995). It seems as if she had done what she was supposed to do. She grew up, went to
school, got married and followed in her mothers footsteps by becoming a teacher. In those days, teaching was acceptable for women, but it should be noted that career opportunities--and even
going to school--was not something encouraged for young girls. Benedict was rather different from the start. After teaching for awhile, she did an about face and enrolled in the New
School for Social Research, and was influenced by Elsie Clews Parsons and Alexander Goldenweiser who sent her to study anthropology under Franz Boas at Columbia University (McHenry, 1995). She achieved
her doctorate in 1923 with a dissertation called "The Concept of the Guardian Spirit in North America," and was soon teaching at Columbia University herself (1995). She did not attain
a full professorship there until 1948, which was a time shortly before her death (1995). Her life was seemingly entrenched in education and she was a remarkable anthropologist. She
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