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Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978)
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Mead and Ruth Benedict : The Kinship of Women by
Hilary Lapsley
Anyone who has ever
taken an introduction to cultural anthropology course should enjoy
this biography of the intimate relationship between two of the
discipline's early, modern female pioneers, Margaret Mead and Ruth
Benedict. From their meeting at Columbia University in the early
1920s until Benedict's death in 1948, Mead and Benedict remained
close despite the interruption of marriage, affairs, fieldwork,
and jealous colleagues. The book brings to life such prominent
anthropologists as Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and Gregory Bateson
as well as poets Leonie Adams and Edna St. Vincent Millay. This
account traces the career of Mead as she popularizes ethnographies
with her commentary on the people and cultures of the South
Pacific and that of Benedict as she fights the misogyny of
academia. Author Lapsley, using poetry, dream interpretation, and
written correspondence by the two women and their shared friends
and colleagues, weaves an easily read and enjoyable narrative. Julia
Glynn from Booklist
 Coming
of Age in Samoa : A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for
Western Civilisation by
Margaret Mead
Coming of Age in
Samoa, Margaret Mead's psychological
study of youth in a primitive society, is today recognized as a
scientific classic. However, when first published, as Dr. Mead
points out in her preface to this Morrow Quill edition, it was
"the first piece of work by a serious professional
anthropologist written for the educated layman in which all the
paraphernalia of scholarship designed to convince one's
professional colleagues and confuse the laity was deliberately
laid aside."
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American Museum
of Natural History
Excerpt:
Margaret Mead (1901-78) taught generations of
Americans about the value of looking carefully and openly at other
cultures to better understand the complexities of being human.
Scientist, explorer, writer, and teacher, Mead, who worked in the
Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural
History from 1926 until her death, brought the serious work of
anthropology into the public consciousness.
Mead studied at Barnard College, where she met
the great anthropologist Franz Boas, who became her mentor and her
advisor when she attended graduate school at Columbia University.
She was twenty-three years old when she first traveled to the
South Pacific, to conduct research for her doctoral dissertation...
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Includes a biography, list of media resources,
information about seminars and events related to the centennial,
updates on Oceania fieldwork, and more.
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Excerpt:
Margaret Mead died in 1978, she was the most
famous anthropologist in the world. Indeed, it was through her
work that many people learned about anthropology and its holistic
vision of the human species...
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Excerpt:
World renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead
(1901 to 1978) contributed vastly to the understanding of human
history. Her work has, and will continue to impact the daily lives
of people around the world. Her 44 books and more than 1,000
articles have been translated into virtually all languages. Her
data has been carefully catalogued and preserved.
She was the first anthropologist to study
child-rearing practices. Her work on learning theory and
"Learning Through Imprinting," a method by which
children learn, is currently being studied further...
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Excerpt:
Margaret Mead's fieldwork in Samoa, which
resulted in her first major work, Coming of Age in Samoa, was
completed over a period of months during 1925/26. Upon
publication, it became an immediate success with the public.
Through it, people were given access to a society unburdened by
the problems of twentieth century industrialized America. She
wrote of a society where love was available for the asking and
crime was dealt with by exchanging a few mats. This book launched
Margaret Mead's, career, which led to her becoming one of the most
renown figures in American anthropology, if not in the world.
In 1983, Derek Freeman published his own study of Samoa titled,
"Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of an
Anthropological Myth"(1983a.).
Derek Freeman read Mead's "Coming of Age in
Samoa" soon after it was published. Enthralled, he became a
regular visitor to the islands, learned the language, customs, and
even became a participant local village politics as a full-fledged
member of the community. He is recognized by his peers, and by the
Samoans themselves, as an authority on Samoan culture. In his
text, which is actually a refutation of Mead's work, Freeman takes
particular umbrage at Mead, and claims that she was, or may have
been, duped in regard to her conclusions. Freeman's work in Samoa
encompassed the same area of Mead's, yet with quite different
results...
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