Explores the life and legacy of anthropolist Margaret Mead.
I have had to help finish the work of Jane Belo ( 1112 ) , Colin McPhee ( 1966 ) , Edith Cobb ( in press ) and Margaret Lowenfeld ( in press ) . The completion of my own field work falls into three parts : ( 1 ) the publications on my ...
Starting with six - year - olds would be harder , with twelve - year - olds , harder still . Starting with eighteen - year ... But of course starting with the two - year - olds really means beginning with those who will start them off .
Describes the life and career the the anthropoligist, including her childhood in Pennsylvania, her tutelage under Franz Boas, and her fieldwork in the South Pacific.
The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time.
... and Brenda Silver's interpretation of the British literary icon, Virginia Woolf,8 my aim is to understand what Margaret Mead came to represent to the American public and why she was embraced by so many people, to such a great extent ...
1931, Margaret and Reo return to New Guinea Margaret and Gregory in New Guinea, where they worked together and fell in love 50 54 Spring 1933, Margaret, Reo, and Gregory leave New Guinea 1936, Margaret marries Gregory in Singapore ...
Thus, it was major news in 1983, five years after her death, when Derek Freeman, a New Zealand–born anthropologist, published Margaret Mead and x Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an Anthropological Myth, a Foreword by Paul S. Boyer.
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
These illustrated biographies combine accessible technical information with compelling personal stories to portray the scientists whose work has shaped our understanding of the natural world.