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Margaret Mead : the making of an American icon / Nancy C. Lutkehaus.
Penn Museum Library GN21.M36 L87 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lutkehaus, Nancy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
- Women anthropologists--United States--Biography.
- Women anthropologists.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Introduction: Mead as American Icon 1
- Chapter 1 Mead as Modern Woman 25
- Chapter 2 Images of the Mature Mead 58
- Chapter 3 Mead as Anthropologist: "Sex in the South Seas" 83
- Chapter 4 Mead as Anthropologist: "To Study Cannibals" 113
- Chapter 5 Mead as Anthropologist: "To Find Out How Girls Learn to Be Girls" 133
- Chapter 6 Mead and the Image of the Anthropologist 151
- Chapter 7 Mead as Scientist 165
- Chapter 8 Mead as Public Intellectual and Celebrity 205
- Chapter 9 The Posthumous Mead, or Mead, the Public Anthropologist 238.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [331]-360) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691009414
- 0691009414
- OCLC:
- 191758295
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