Margaret Mead: A Biography by Mary Bowman-Kruhm
Description : When Coming of Age in Samoa was published in 1928, the book quickly became a bestseller and brought its author to national prominence—a bright, young, and charismatic anthropologist named Margaret Mead. For the next five decades, Margaret Mead became the public face of anthropology in the U...more..
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Margaret Mead Made Me Gay: Personal Essays, Public Ideas (Series Q) by Esther Newton
Description : Margaret Mead Made Me Gay is the intellectual autobiography of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton, a pioneer in gay and lesbian studies. Chronicling the development of her ideas from the excitement of early feminism in the 1960s to friendly critiques of queer theory in the 1990s, this...more..
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Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard
Description : Howard's definitive biography of the woman who was one of the giants of the 20th century covers Mead's professional accomplishments, three marriages, intense friendships, and groundbreaking travels. 16-page photograph insert....more..
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Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth (Pelican) by Derek Freeman
Description : In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, "Coming of Age in Samoa" has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that stil...more..
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Return from the Natives: How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War by Peter Mandler
Description : Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War. This fascinating...more..
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With a Daughter's Eye: Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson, A by Mary C. Bateson
Description : In With a Daughter's Eye, writer and cultural anthropologist Mary Catherine Bateson looks back on her extraordinary childhood with two of the world's legendary anthropologists, Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. This deeply human and illuminating portrait sheds new light on her parents' prodi...more..
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Intertwined Lives: Margaret Mead, Ruth Benedict, and Their Circle by Lois W. Banner
Description : A uniquely revealing biography of two eminent twentieth century American women. Close friends for much of their lives, Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead met at Barnard College in 1922, when Mead was a student, Benedict a teacher. They became sexual partners (though both married), and pioneered in the ...more..
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Margaret Mead and the Heretic: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth by Derek Freeman
Description : In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her discovery of a culture where free love flourished, and jealousy and adolescent turmoil were unknown. In this work Derek Freeman provides evidence that Mead made a series of errors in her analysis of the Samoan people. Over years of research, Freeman found the Samo...more..
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The Value of Understanding: The Story of Margaret Mead (ValueTales Series) by Spencer Johnson
Description : A biography, stressing the understanding and tolerance, of an anthropologist who did extensive studies of primitive cultures....more..
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The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy (Studies in American Thought and Culture) by Paul Shankman
Description : In 1928 Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa, a fascinating study of the lives of adolescent girls that transformed Mead herself into an academic celebrity. In 1983 anthropologist Derek Freeman published a scathing critique of Mead’s Samoan research, badly damaging her reputa...more..
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