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Margaret Mead : a biography / Mary Bowman-Kruhm.
Penn Museum Library GN21.M36 B85 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowman-Kruhm, Mary.
- Series:
- Greenwood biographies 1540-4900
- Greenwood biographies, 1540-4900
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
- Mead, Margaret.
- Women anthropologists--United States--Biography.
- Women anthropologists.
- Manners and customs.
- United States.
- Melanesia.
- Women anthropologists--Melanesia--Biography.
- Ethnology--Fieldwork--Melanesia.
- Ethnology.
- Ethnology--Fieldwork.
- Melanesia--Social life and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 160 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2003.
- Contents:
- Significant Events in Margaret Mead's Life xv
- Chapter 1 Kith and Kin as a Girl in Pennsylvania (1901-1920) 1
- Chapter 2 From Indiana to Oceania (1920-1925) 15
- Chapter 3 Ta'u, Taro, and Talking Chiefs (1925-1926) 31
- Chapter 4 People Are Made, Not Born (1926-1929) 45
- Chapter 5 Midcareer Life Changes (1929-1939) 59
- Chapter 6 The War That Divided the World (1939-1953) 75
- Chapter 7 Mead, the Polymath: A Scholar with a Worldwide Perspective (1953-1978) 91
- Chapter 8 Patterns of People, Career of Controversy 109
- Chapter 9 What Would Margaret Mead Say Today? 127.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [145]-151) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0313322678
- OCLC:
- 50132282
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