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And Keep Your Powder Dry - An Anthropologist Looks at America by Margaret Mead
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Margaret Mead: the Study of Contemporary Western Culture Ser.
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 ...Show more
The Study of Culture at a Distance by Margaret Mead
Category: Social Sciences | Series: Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Cultures
The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world. Facing enemies with unfamiliar cultural traditions, the U.S. government turned to anthropologists for insight. The result was a research effort that continued long after the war, aimed, in the words ...Show more
To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected letters of Margaret Mead by Margaret Mead
Category: Biography Memoir
Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist, Margaret Mead was a prolific letter writer, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. To Cherish the Life of the World presents, for the first time, her personal and professional correspondence, which spanned sixty years. These letters lend ...Show more
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