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And keep your powder dry : an anthropologist looks at America /
Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States - the first since de Tocqueville - in 1942 at the beginnning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers from both Europe and Asia in a particularly challenging manner. Mead's work be...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Berghahn Books,
2000.
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| Colección: | Margaret Mead--researching Western contemporary cultures ;
v. 2. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States - the first since de Tocqueville - in 1942 at the beginnning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers from both Europe and Asia in a particularly challenging manner. Mead's work became an instant classic. It was required reading for anthropology students for nearly two decades, and was widely translated. It was revised and expanded in 1965 for a second generation of readers. Among the more controversial conclusions of her analysis are the denial of class as a motivating force in American culture, and her contention that culture is the primary determinant for individual character formation. Her process remains lucid, vivid, and arresting. As a classic study of a complex western society, it remains a monument to anthropological analysis. |
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| Notas: | Previously published: New York : Morrow, 1965. "A new expanded edition of a classic work on the American character." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xlii, 214 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 210-214). |
| ISBN: | 9781782384748 178238474X |