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Return from the natives : how Margaret Mead won the Second World War and lost the Cold War / by Peter Mandler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mandler, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
- Mead, Margaret.
- Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978--Friends and associates.
- National characteristics.
- Ethnopsychology.
- World War, 1939-1945--Social aspects.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- Cold War--Social aspects.
- Cold War.
- Anthropology--United States--History--20th century.
- Anthropology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (383 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT ; London : Yale University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War. This fascinating book follows Mead and her closest collaborators-her lover and mentor Ruth Benedict, her third husband Gregory Bateson, and her prospective fourth husband Geoffrey Gorer-through their triumphant climax, when Mead became the cultural ambassador from America to Britain in 1943, to their downfall in the Cold War. Part intellectual biography, part cultural history, and part history of the human sciences, Peter Mandler's book is a reminder that the Second World War and the Cold War were a clash of cultures, not just ideologies, and asks how far intellectuals should involve themselves in politics, at a time when Mead's example is cited for and against experts' involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Return from the Natives
- 1 From the South Seas (to 1939)
- 2 Culture Cracking for War: I. Allies (1939-44)
- 3 Among the Natives of Great Britain (1942-5)
- 4 Culture Cracking for War: II. Enemies (1942-5)
- 5 Culture Cracking for Peace (1945-50)
- 6 Swaddling the Russians (1947-51)
- 7 Return to the Natives (1947-53)
- Epilogue: To Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 1-299-28406-X
- 0-300-18970-2
- OCLC:
- 839388466
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