Margaret Mead /

"Tracing Mead's career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. The book looks at Mead's early career through the end of World War II, when she produ...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shankman, Paul (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, [2021].
Series:Anthropology's ancestors.
Subjects:
Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978.
Women anthropologists > United States > Biography.
Femmes anthropologues > États-Unis > Biographies.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Social Scientists & Psychologists
Women anthropologists.
United States.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Beginnings
  • First fieldwork in Samoa
  • Writing Coming of age in Samoa
  • Manus and the Omaha
  • Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli
  • Culture and personality, and Bali
  • The war years and national character studies
  • The postwar years and revisiting Manus
  • Mead as a public figure
  • Women's issues and the Redbook columns
  • The Mead-Freeman controversy
  • Legacies
  • Select works by Margaret Mead.

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