Margaret Mead

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-80073-141-7
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 142 Seiten, Format (B × H): 132 mm x 209 mm, Gewicht: 310 g

Reihe: Anthropology's Ancestors

Tracing Mead’s career as an ethnographer, as the early voice of public anthropology, and as a public figure, this elegantly written biography links the professional and personal sides of her career. The book looks at Mead’s early career through the end of World War II, when she produced her most important anthropological works, as well as her role as a public figure in the post-war period, through the 1960s until her death in 1978. The criticisms of Mead are also discussed and analyzed. This short volume is an ideal starting point for anyone wanting to learn about, arguably, the most famous anthropologist of the twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Shankman, Paul

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Geschichte der Soziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1. Beginnings

Chapter 2. First Fieldwork in Samoa

Chapter 3. Writing Coming of Age in Samoa

Chapter 4. Manus and the Omaha

Chapter 5. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli

Chapter 6. Culture and Personality, and Bali

Chapter 7. The War Years and National Character Studies

Chapter 8. The Post-War Years and Revisiting Manus

Chapter 9. Mead as a Public Figure

Chapter 10. Women’s Issues and the Redbook Columns

Chapter 11. The Mead-Freeman Controversy

Chapter 12. Legacies

References

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Shankman, Paul
Paul Shankman is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado-Boulder. He is the author of The Trashing of Margaret Mead: Anatomy of an Anthropological Controversy (Wisconsin, 2009).