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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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Mandler, Peter (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Sujets:
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.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction: Return from the Natives
  • 1 From the South Seas (to 1939)
  • 2 Culture Cracking for War: I. Allies (1939-44)
  • 3 Among the Natives of Great Britain (1942-5)
  • 4 Culture Cracking for War: II. Enemies (1942-5)
  • 5 Culture Cracking for Peace (1945-50)
  • 6 Swaddling the Russians (1947-51)
  • 7 Return to the Natives (1947-53)
  • Epilogue: To Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index

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