Margaret Mead : the making of an American icon /

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Using photographs, films, television appearances, and materials from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, this text explores the ways in which Margaret Mead became an American cultural heroine.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Lutkehaus, Nancy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978.
Women anthropologists > United States > Biography.
Anthropologists > United States > Biography.
Femmes anthropologues > États-Unis > Biographies.
Anthropologues > États-Unis > Biographies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Anthropologists.
Women anthropologists.
United States.
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Mead as modern woman
  • Images of the mature Mead
  • Mead as anthropologist: "Sex in the South Seas" ; "To study cannibals" ; "To find out how girls learn to be girls"
  • Mead and the image of the anthropologist
  • Mead as scientist
  • Mead as public intellectual and celebrity
  • The posthumous Mead, or Mead, the public anthropologist.

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