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Letters from the Field, 1925-1975

Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 - Paperback

by Margaret Mead
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Availability:In StockContributor:Margaret MeadPublish date:2015-05-27Pages:416
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060958046ISBN-10:60958049UPC:9780060958046Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Customs & Traditions, SociologyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Social TheorySize:8.02 x 5.31 x 1.04 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCRT9JKW1D

Beginning in 1925, when at twenty-three she embarked on her first field work in Samoa, Mead sent family and friends these letters from the field "to make a little more real for them" the exotic worlds that absorbed her.

In this complement to her bestselling memoir Blackberry Winter, Mead has assembled selected letters she wrote from Samoa in 1925-26; from Peré Village, Manus, in the Admiralty Islands, in 1928-29; from the Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli, New Guinea, in 1932-33; from Bali and the Iatmul, New Guinea, in 1936-39; from Manus again in 1953; and during brief visits in the sixties and seventies to Manus, several new Guinea sites, and Montserrat in the West Indies.

Enhanced by more than 100 photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny and sometimes poetic letters help us share with Mead "the unique, but also cumulative, experience of immersing oneself in the on-going life of another people, . . .attempting to understand mentally and physically this other version of reality."

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060958046ISBN-10:60958049UPC:9780060958046Book Category:Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Customs & Traditions, SociologyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Social TheorySize:8.02 x 5.31 x 1.04 inchesWeight:0.6812Product ID:SCRT9JKW1D
Mead, Margaret: - Margaret Mead (1901-1978) began her remarkable career when she visited Samoa at the age of twenty-three, which led to her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa. She went on to become one of the most influential women of our time, publishing some forty works and serving as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History as well as president of major scientific associations. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom following her death in 1978.
Publisher: Harper Perennial

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