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Margaret Mead

Author : Paul Shankman
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1800731426
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead written by Paul Shankman and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-07-16 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This short volume is an ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about, arguably, the most famous anthropologist of the twentieth century. “Since her death, a steady drip of books about Mead, one of the most significant women in twentieth century social science and American society, has appeared, some interesting, many quite a bit less so. While Shankman’s biography makes use of them, it nevertheless stands out among the better ones, not only for its well-informed and balanced view of Mead, but also for its concision.”—Times Literary Supplement 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 produced her most important anthropological works, as well as her role as a public figure in the post-war period, through the 1960s until her death in 1978. The criticisms of Mead are also discussed and analyzed. From the introduction: After her death, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Jimmy Carter.... On the other side of the world, Mead’s passing was remembered in a very different context. On the island of Manus off the coast of New Guinea, the people of Pere village also mourned her death. Mead first studied the people of Pere in the late 1920s, returning in the 1950s with further visits thereafter. Over a span of five decades, she touched their lives, and they touched hers. Such was Mead’s stature that they commemorated her death with a ceremony befitting a great leader.

The Trashing of Margaret Mead

Author : Paul Shankman
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299234533
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)

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Download or read book The Trashing of Margaret Mead written by Paul Shankman and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2009-12-03 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 reputation. Resonating beyond academic circles, his case against Mead tapped into important public concerns of the 1980s, including sexual permissiveness, cultural relativism, and the nature/nurture debate. In venues from the New York Times to the TV show Donahue, Freeman argued that Mead had been “hoaxed” by Samoans whose innocent lies she took at face value. In The Trashing of Margaret Mead, Paul Shankman explores the many dimensions of the Mead-Freeman controversy as it developed publicly and as it played out privately, including the personal relationships, professional rivalries, and larger-than-life personalities that drove it. Providing a critical perspective on Freeman’s arguments, Shankman reviews key questions about Samoan sexuality, the alleged hoaxing of Mead, and the meaning of the controversy. Why were Freeman’s arguments so readily accepted by pundits outside the field of anthropology? What did Samoans themselves think? Can Mead’s reputation be salvaged from the quicksand of controversy? Written in an engaging, clear style and based on a careful review of the evidence, The Trashing of Margaret Mead illuminates questions of enduring significance to the academy and beyond. 2010 Distinguished Lecturer in Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History “The Trashing of Margaret Mead reminds readers of the pitfalls of academia. It urges scholars to avoid personal attacks and to engage in healthy debate. The book redeems Mead while also redeeming the field of anthropology. By showing the uniqueness of the Mead-Freeman case, Shankman places his continued confidence in academia, scholars, and the field of anthropology.”—H-Net Reviews

Margaret Mead and Samoa

Author : Derek Freeman
Publisher : Penguin Group USA
ISBN 13 : 9780140225556
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead and Samoa written by Derek Freeman and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial negative instance, an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology.

The Study of Culture at a Distance

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571812155
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Study of Culture at a Distance written by Margaret Mead and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1953 Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux produced The Study of Culture at a Distance, a compilation of research from this period. This work, long unavailable, presents a rich and complex methodology for the study of cultures through literature, film, informant interviews, focus groups, and projective techniques.

COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA

Author : MARGARET. MEAD
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781033030912
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA written by MARGARET. MEAD and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Margaret Mead

Author : Elesha J. Coffman
Publisher : Spiritual Lives
ISBN 13 : 0198834934
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead written by Elesha J. Coffman and published by Spiritual Lives. This book was released on 2021 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume introduces a side of Margaret Mead that few people know. Coffman provides a fascinating account of Mead's life and reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns.

Gods of the Upper Air

Author : Charles King
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385542208
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Gods of the Upper Air written by Charles King and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award Winner Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award From an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it—a sweeping chronicle of discovery and the fascinating origin story of our multicultural world. A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fictions. Cultures did not come in neat packages labeled "primitive" or "advanced." What counted as a family, a good meal, or even common sense was a product of history and circumstance, not of nature. In Gods of the Upper Air, a masterful narrative history of radical ideas and passionate lives, Charles King shows how these intuitions led to a fundamental reimagining of human diversity. Boas's students were some of the century's most colorful figures and unsung visionaries: Margaret Mead, the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in Samoa is among the most widely read works of social science of all time; Ruth Benedict, the great love of Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War Japan; Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans on the Great Plains; and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas fed directly into her now classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. Together, they mapped civilizations from the American South to the South Pacific and from Caribbean islands to Manhattan's city streets, and unearthed an essential fact buried by centuries of prejudice: that humanity is an undivided whole. Their revolutionary findings would go on to inspire the fluid conceptions of identity we know today. Rich in drama, conflict, friendship, and love, Gods of the Upper Air is a brilliant and groundbreaking history of American progress and the opening of the modern mind.

Margaret Mead

Author : Nancy C. Lutkehaus
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691190275
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead written by Nancy C. Lutkehaus and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world."--Margaret Mead This quotation--found on posters and bumper stickers, and adopted as the motto for hundreds of organizations worldwide--speaks to the global influence and legacy of the American anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-78). In this insightful and revealing book, Nancy Lutkehaus explains how and why Mead became the best-known anthropologist and female public intellectual in twentieth-century America. Using photographs, films, television appearances, and materials from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, Lutkehaus explores the ways in which Mead became an American cultural heroine. Identifying four key images associated with her--the New Woman, the Anthropologist/Adventurer, the Scientist, and the Public Intellectual--Lutkehaus examines the various meanings that different segments of American society assigned to Mead throughout her lengthy career as a public figure. The author shows that Mead came to represent a new set of values and ideas--about women, non-Western peoples, culture, and America's role in the twentieth century--that have significantly transformed society and become generally accepted today. Lutkehaus also considers why there has been no other anthropologist since Mead to become as famous. Margaret Mead is an engaging look at how one woman's life and accomplishments resonated with the issues that shaped American society and changed her into a celebrity and cultural icon.

Return from the Natives

Author : Peter Mandler
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300187858
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Return from the Natives written by Peter Mandler and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part intellectual biography, part cultural history and part history of human sciences, this fascinating volume follows renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead and her colleagues as they showed that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War.

Intertwined Lives

Author : Lois W. Banner
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679776125
Total Pages : 578 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book Intertwined Lives written by Lois W. Banner and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2004-12-07 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 then male-dominated discipline of anthropology. They championed racial and sexual equality and cultural relativity despite the generally racist, xenophobic, and homophobic tenor of their era. Mead’s best-selling Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), and Benedict’s Patterns of Culture (1934), Race (1940), and The Chrysanthemum and the Sword (1946), were landmark studies that ensured the lasting prominence and influence of their authors in the field of anthropology and beyond. With unprecedented access to the complete archives of the two women—including hundreds of letters opened to scholars in 2001—Lois Banner examines the impact of their difficult childhoods and the relationship between them in the context of their circle of family, friends, husbands, lovers, and colleagues, as well as the calamitous events of their time. She shows how Benedict inadvertently exposed Mead to charges of professional incompetence, discloses the serious errors New Zealand anthropologist Derek Freeman made in his famed attack on Mead’s research on Samoa, and reveals what happened in New Guinea when Mead and colleagues engaged in a ritual aimed at overturning all gender and sexual boundaries. In this illuminating and innovative work, Banner has given us the most detailed, balanced, and informative portrait of Mead and Benedict—individually and together—that we have had.

Margaret Mead

Author : Susan Saunders
Publisher : Puffin
ISBN 13 : 0147516617
Total Pages : 98 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead written by Susan Saunders and published by Puffin. This book was released on 2015 with total page 98 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life of the pioneer anthropologist who popularized the field and used her ideas to promote world unity and peace.

Blackberry Winter; My Earlier Years

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780317600650
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Blackberry Winter; My Earlier Years written by Margaret Mead and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Margaret Mead Made Me Gay

Author : Esther Newton
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326120
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead Made Me Gay written by Esther Newton and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2000-11-22 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA collection of essays by a pioneering queer anthropologist./div

Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict

Author : Hilary Lapsley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict written by Hilary Lapsley and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revealing study of the relationship between two major figures in the history of anthropology--first as mentor and protegee, later as colleagues and lovers. 16 illustrations.

Uncommon Lives

Author : Patricia Grinager
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Lives written by Patricia Grinager and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this vivid and deeply personal portrait of Mead's brilliance, foibles, humor and her private reactions to friends and enemies, Uncommon Lives traces the intertwined lives of two remarkable women.

Margaret Mead

Author : Michael Pollard
Publisher : Blackbirch Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9781567113273
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (132 download)

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Download or read book Margaret Mead written by Michael Pollard and published by Blackbirch Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 1999 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the life of the noted anthropologist who worked to help people all over the world understand each other's cultures.

Coming of Age

Author : Deborah Blum
Publisher : Thomas Dunne Books
ISBN 13 : 1250055725
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Coming of Age written by Deborah Blum and published by Thomas Dunne Books. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Coming of Age focuses on five years in Mead's young life when she began to question the traditional attitudes toward sex, courtship and marriage that dominated the early 20th century. The story begins in 1921, when Mead is a young woman of twenty and a student at Barnard College in New York City. Conventional enough to accept the role society has handed to her, and defiant enough to rise up against it, she struggles to find her own path. Life begins to change as she experiences new friendships and many firsts, including marriage and an affair. In 1925, following her interest in anthropology, Mead takes a step that shocks both family and colleagues. She decides to go alone to Samoa to study how girls in this very different culture mature into women. There on a tiny island in the South Pacific, with an ocean between her and the people she loves, she begins to understand how the invisible chains of society can imprison one's body and mind. Mead's voyage of self-discovery is both painful, exciting and enlightening. She returns from her fieldwork ready to do something no woman before her has dared to do: write with frankness and clarity about the sexual awakening of young girls. And America, it turns out, is ready to hear what she has to say. Drawing on letters, diaries and memoirs, Blum reconstructs the colorful and dramatic life of one of the most provocative thinkers of the 20th century"--