Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 by Margaret Mead
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Description Margaret Mead was famous for keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends as we see in this collection of wonderfully revealing correspondence from the field. Written over a period of half a century, these letters to friends, family, and colleagues detail her first fieldwork in Samoa and go on to record her now famous anthropological endeavors in mainland New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali. Enhanced by photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny, and often poetic letters tell us much about Mead's passion for and understanding of preliterate cultures. But they are equally valuable as a fundamental text on the science — and art — of anthropology. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Jan Morris and Mead's daughter. Mary Catherine Bateson.
Publisher Description
Beginning in 1925 mead sent family and friends these letters from the field "to make a little more real for them" the exotic worlds that absorbed her. 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".
Author Biography
Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978) began her remarkable career when she visited Samoa a the age of 23. She went on to publish some 40 works and to serve 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.
Details ISBN 0060958049 ISBN-13 9780060958046 Title Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 Author Margaret Mead Format Paperback Year 2001 Pages 416 Edition 1st Publisher Harper Perennial GE_Item_ID:6552782; About Us
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