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Benedict's work, in fact, anticipated trends in anthropology in the decades to come by projecting a framework of individuals not only shaped by their culture but also using their culture for personal or collective objectives."--BOOK JACKET.
Raymond Roger Kane is the king of New Redlands – one of five kingdoms in Vorhaven, ruled by five different kings. When the king of another land, Tayyab Khurrabh, takes offense to a particular sighting of Raymond’s dragon, he does the unthinkable and attacks Raymond in a fit of rage. Parallel to this, in New Redlands, wedding bells ring as the princess of New Redlands gets a proposal from another kingdom – Pagria’s Deary, to keep an old promise. Raymond finally agrees to the wedding, but the groom’s family have a dark agenda of their own that could result in the death of thousands. The days and nights keep turning and brings with it surprises for Raymond and company as they ultimately have to fight to stay alive. When the dust settles, Raymond is forced to become a part of a dark and vile promise.
Poet, anthropologist, feminist—Ruth Fulton Benedict was all of these and much more. Born into the last years of the Victorian era, she came of age during the Progressive years and participated in inaugurating the modern era of American life. Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land provides an intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an important and remarkable woman. As a Lyricist poet, Ruth Benedict helped define Modernism. As an anthropologist, she wrote the classic Patterns of Culture and at one point was considered the foremost anthropologist in the United States—the first woman ever to attain such status. She was an intellectual a...
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