The Study of Culture At a Distance by Margaret Mead

The Study of Culture At a Distance by Margaret Mead

The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world. Facing enemies with unfamiliar cultural traditions, the U.S. government turned to anthropologists for insight. The result was a research effort that continued long after the war, aimed, in the words of Margaret Mead, at analyzing the cultural..

Margaret Mead served as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1925 to 1969. She began her career with a study of youth and adolescence in Samoan society, published as Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). She published prolifically, becoming a seminal figure in anthropology, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979.

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ISBN 13	9781571812162
ISBN 10	1571812164
Title	The Study of Culture At a Distance
Author	Margaret Mead
Series	Margaret Mead: The Study Of Contemporary Western Culture
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Year published	2000-08-17
Number of pages	560
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