Editing Ruth Benedict (section)

===Postwar===
Before [[World War II]] began, Benedict had been giving lectures at the [[Bryn Mawr College]] for the Anna Howard Shaw Memorial Lectureship. The lectures were focused around the idea of [[synergy]]. However, World War II made her focus on other areas of concentration of anthropology, and the lectures were never presented in their entirety.<ref>Maslow, ''et al.'' 1970</ref> After the war, she focused on finishing her book ''[[The Chrysanthemum and the Sword]]''.<ref>Benedict 1989: 43</ref> Her original notes for the synergy lecture were never found after her death.<ref>Benedict 1989</ref> She was elected a Fellow of the [[American Academy of Arts and Sciences]] in 1947.<ref name="AAAS">{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter B|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterB.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|access-date=June 2, 2011}}</ref> She continued her teaching after the war and advanced to the rank of full professor only two months before her death in New York on September 17, 1948.