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On Creating a Usable Culture : Margaret Mead and the Emergence of American Cosmopolitanism /
Margaret Mead's career took off in 1928 with the publication of Coming of Age in Samoa. Within ten years, she was the best-known academic in the United States, a role she enjoyed all of her life. In On Creating a Usable Culture, Maureen Molloy explores how Mead was influenced by, and influenced...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Honolulu :
University of Hawaii Press,
[2008]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1 .Introduction
- 2. The Problem of American Culture
- 3. The "Jungle Flapper" Civilization, Repression, and the Homogenous Society
- 4. "Lords of an Empty Creation" Masculinity, Puritanism, and Cultural Stagnation
- 5. "Every Woman Deviating from the Code" Cultural Lag, Moral Contagion, and Social Disintegration
- 6. "Maladjustment of a Worse Order" Temperament, Psychosexual Misidentifi cation, and the Refuge of Private Life
- 7. On Creating a Usable Culture
- Notes
- References
- Index