What is Ruth Landes?
{{Infobox Person | name = Ruth Landes | image = Ruthlandes.gif | image_size = 125px | caption = | birth_date = {{birth date|1908|10|08}} | birth_place = [[New York City, New York]] | death_date = {{death date|1991|02|11}} | death_place = [[Hamilton, Ontario]] | education = Ph.D., [[Columbia University]] (1935) | occupation = [[Anthropologist]] }} '''Ruth Landes''' (October 8, 1908, [[New York City]] – February 11, 1991, [[Ontario]], [[Canada]]) was an [[USA|American]] [[cultural anthropologist]] best known for studies on [[Brazil]]ian [[candomblé]] cults and her published study on the topic, ''City of Women'' (1947). Landes is recognized by some as a pioneer in the study of race and gender relations.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nebraskapress.unl.edu/(S(hg4sgh552t3w3ty0xmeoi2nk))/catalog/productinfo.aspx?id=671187&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 |title=Ruth Landes - University of Nebraska Press<!-- Bot generated title --> |access-date=2008-11-23 |archive-date=2016-09-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160920201547/http://nebraskapress.unl.edu/(S(hg4sgh552t3w3ty0xmeoi2nk))/catalog/productinfo.aspx?id=671187&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 |url-status=dead }}</ref> ==Bibliography== '''Selected books''' * ''Ojibwa Sociology'' (1937) * ''The Ojibwa Woman'' (1938) {{ISBN|0-8032-7969-8}} * ''The City of Women'' (1947) {{ISBN|0-8263-1556-9}} * ''Culture in American Education: Anthropological Approaches to Minority and Dominant Groups in the Schools'' (1965) * ''Latin Americans of the Southwest'' (1965) * ''A cidade das mulheres'' (1967) (Portuguese translation of The City of Women.) * ''The Mystic Lake Sioux: Sociology of the Mdewakantonwan Sioux'' (1968) * ''Ojibwa Religion and the Midewiwin'' (1968) * ''The Prairie Potawatomi: Tradition and Ritual in the Twentieth Century'' (1970) ==References== {{Reflist}} * Cole, Sally. 2003. ''Ruth Landes: A Life in Anthropology''. University of Nebraska. * [http://www.nmnh.si.edu/naa/fa/asch.pdf Register to the Papers of Ruth Schlossberg Landes] {{We