Return from the natives : how Margaret Mead won the Second World War and lost the Cold War /

Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and 30s, was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could help sum up the national character of the most complex, modern societies and produce better wartim...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mandler, Peter (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Temas:
Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978.
1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 > Influence.
Cold War > Influence.
Cultural relativism.
Anthropology > Government policy > United States.
Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945 > Influence.
Relativisme culturel.
Anthropologie > Politique gouvernementale > États-Unis.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Propaganda.
Anthropology > Government policy.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
War > Influence.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and 30s, was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could help sum up the national character of the most complex, modern societies and produce better wartime strategies. This book follows her and her closest collaborators to their triumphant climax when Mead was chosen to be one of the principal cultural ambassadors from America to Britain in 1943.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 366 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0300189702
9780300189704
9781299284067
129928406X

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