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- ↑ Benedict, Ruth (1931). Tales of the Cochiti Indians. Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 98
- ↑ Lavender, Catherine Jane (2006). Scientists and storytellers: Feminist anthropologists and the construction of the American Southwest. UNM Press, ISBN 978-0-8263-3868-6
- ↑ Lapsley, Hilary (2001). Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women. University of Massachusetts Press, ISBN 978-1-55849-295-0
- ↑ Babcock, Barbara A. (1992). "Not in the Absolute Singular": Re-Reading Ruth Benedict. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1992, p. 39 ff.
- ↑ Radner, Joan Newlon (1993). Feminist messages: coding in women's folk culture, p. 228. University of Illinois Press, ISBN 978-0-252-06267-4
