Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others: Essays on Culture and Personality (History of Anthropology)
Language: English
Pages: 266
ISBN: 0299107345
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Malinowski continued to maintain personal contact with figures in the world of psychoanalysis into the 1930s. Flugel remained one of his intimates; and during a stay with his family in the south of France in 1932, he established a close friendship with Princess Marie Bonaparte, with whom he corresponded over the next few years, often about matters relating to psychoanalysis and anthropology (Bertin 1932:186). Through Princess Marie, he became briefly involved in helping Geza Roheim settle in the
pistol in his mouth and pulled the trigger. Coming to consciousness with a bullet lodged in his forehead, Layard staggered to Auden's flat and asked him to finish the job; Auden refused, and took him to a hospital, where the bullet was extracted. With his brain miraculously undamaged, and his immediate obsessions dispelled by the suicide attempt, Layard soon recovered and returned to Britain (Gardiner 1976). Back in London, he began working on his Malekulan material-"pouring over my
regarding such symbolism in the Vao version of the ceremony was lacking, he promised that it would "be given in my more detailed account of initiation of Atchin" (1942:521). However, in his unpublished notes concerning initiation into manhood on Atchin, which, admittedly, do not appear to be final drafts, the only evidence I could find of ritual death and rebirth was the novices' seclusion in the initiation lodge for thirty days. Layard thought it "significant" that this was the common period of
every line of her work is sincere" (PMP: 3123125). Religious imagery is central in Benedict's poetry, but she used it without religious conviction. As she explained in an autobiographical fragment written for Mead, her religion was a culture, not a faith: "I was brought up in VIGOROUS MALE AND ASPIRING FEMALE Ruth Benedict, ca. 1925. (Courtesy Vassar College Library.) 139 140 RICHARD HANDLER the midst of the church .... Nevertheless my religious life had nothing to do with institutional
candidates discussed for the fellowships were Cora Du Bois, Ruth Bunzel, Pearl Beaglehole, Ruth Landes, and Walter Dyk, with Benedict speaking on behalf of Morris Opler, and Sullivan and Sapir strongly pushing Stanley Newman -who after receiving his doctorate under Sapir at Yale had had difficulty finding research money to encourage his interest in "problems of language psychology" (NRC: Subcomm. Training Fels., 12121135, p. 7). Although Newman was "a thoroughly normal person," which might make