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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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