19 Facts About Ruth Landes

Ruth Landes was an American cultural anthropologist best known for studies on the Brazilian religion of Candomble and her published study on the topic, City of Women.

Ruth Landes Schlossberg was born in Manhattan, the daughter of Russian Jewish immigrants.

Ruth Landes's father was Joseph Schlossberg, a cofounder and long-term secretary-general of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America.

Ruth Landes was enthralled by the way in which Benedict taught her classes and with the way she forced the students to think in an unconventional way.

Ruth Landes stated that she was never as happy studying anthropology as when she was studying with Benedict and Boas.

Ruth Landes has recorded that the friendship between herself and Benedict was one of the most meaningful friendships of her life.

Ruth Landes began researching the social organization and religious practices of marginalized subjects with her masters thesis on Black Jews in Harlem.

Under Benedict's mentorship, Ruth Landes shifted her focus toward Native Americans, the more traditional anthropological subjects.

In Ojibwa Sociology and Ojibwa Woman, Ruth Landes provides notes on kinship, religious rites and social organization, and in the latter, through the tales of chief informant Maggie Wilson, reported how women navigated within gender roles to assert their economic and social autonomy.

In Ojibwa Religion and The Mystic Lake Sioux, Ruth Landes discussed her subjects' strategies to maintain religious and cultural beliefs and practices while they respond to rapid changes in their cultural and political environment.

Ruth Landes returned to Brazil in 1966 to study the effects of urban development in Rio de Janeiro.

For much of her professional career, Ruth Landes held a number of contract research positions.

Ruth Landes was a consultant on Jewish families of New York for Ruth Benedict's Research in Contemporary Cultures in 1949 to 1951.

In 1950 to 1952, Ruth Landes studied problems of immigrants of Asian and African descent in the United Kingdom.

Ruth Landes resumed interest in the Acadians of Louisiana in 1963.

Ruth Landes was a lecturer at the William Alanson White Psychiatric Institution in New York in 1953 to 1954 and at the New School for Social Research in New York in 1953 to 1955.

Ruth Landes was a visiting professor at the University of Kansas in 1957 and at the University of Southern California in 1957 to 1965.

Ruth Landes was an extension lecturer at Columbia University and at Los Angeles State College in 1963, a visiting professor at Tulane University during the early months of 1964, and a visiting professor at the University of Kansas in the summer of 1964.

Ruth Landes died in Hamilton, Ontario, on February 11,1991, at the age of 82.