Margaret Mead - A Biography

The anthropologist Margaret Mead garnered fame and generated controversy in a full life that spanned most of the 20th century. She was a maverick with a strong and sometimes difficult personality, and this biography follows her from childhood years in Pennsylvania, to college days with her pals nicknamed the Ash Can Cats, to tutelage under the preeminent anthropologist, Franz Boas, at Columbia, and her fieldwork in the South Pacific, starting in Samoa when she was 22 years of age. Private and public are interwoven, with coverage of her marriages, close friendships, writings, and career progression. Mead has special appeal to teens because of her work with and theories on this age group.

Readers will be inspired by Mead's individualism and career in anthropology in its golden age. They will also appreciate the insights into her writings, including her autobiography. Mead's viewpoints on myriad topics are presented, with a final note on her impact and an imagining of what she would say about the world today. A chronology and glossary supplement the text.

Table des matières

Introduction
Kith and Kin as a Girl in Pennsylvania (1901-1920)
From Indiana to Oceania (1920-1925)
Ta'u, Taro, and Talking Chiefs (1925-1926)
People Are Made, Not Born (1926-1929)
Mid-Career Life Changes (1929-1939)
The War That Divided the World (1939-1953)
A Polymath (1953-1978)
Patterns of People, Career of Controversy
What Would Margaret Mead Say
Today?
Significant Events in Margaret Mead's Life
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

A propos de l'auteur

Mary Bowman-Kruhm

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Mary Bowman-Kruhm, Bowman-Kruhm Mary
• Edition: Bloomsbury
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 30.04.2003
• EAN: 9780313322679
• ISBN: 978-0-313-32267-9
• Thème: Greenwood Biographies
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sciences sociales en général; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women, Biography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls, Biography: philosophy and social sciences, Geography and World Cultures: Culture