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Title: Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years by Margaret Mead, Nancy Lutkehaus ISBN: 1-56836-069-X Publisher: Kodansha America Pub. Date: 01 April, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Must For Future Anthropologists
Comment: This book is a must read for a future Anthroplogists.
It clearly brings together all her theories and it is a
heartfelt view on a extremly successful and inspiring
person in this field. I truly enjoyed her book and her
views on culture and the future of Anthropology. I became a big
fan of hers and will continue reading the rest of her books.
If you are only slightly interested in Cultural Anthropolgy
then I suggest you read her books. They are easy to read and
very insightful about culture.
It is worth every penny spend.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting memoir of the early years
Comment: This autobiography is especially interesting for its insight into the professional life of a woman scholar in the 1920's and 1930's in a then new field of inquiry, although Mead did not encounter the extreme levels of resistance that make heroes and role models. Greek societies at her first college seem to have been far more repressive and damaging than were her graduate programs or employers. The professional rivalries are interesting. The book is especially strong in its depiction of Mead's parents, whose contrasting traits we can easily see influencing the daughter's ideas and character. Mead seems to be a keen observer of them, frank about their strengths and weaknesses, as dispassionate as she was in describing people in New Guinea. Mead is far less interested in or detailed about her three husbands. In fact, the autobiography seems oddly reticent, considering that its author was open minded, professionally interested in the sexual habits of other peoples, and unintimidated. She was able to ask Pacific Islanders what positions they preferred for intercourse, but unable in the autobiography to give a sense of the life of her marriages. We learn in detail what she packed for a trip, but only discover in passing that a divorce occurred. This book rewards readers more with cultural history than with a sense of the author's emotional life.
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Title: Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard ISBN: 0449904970 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1989 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation by Margaret Mead ISBN: 0688050336 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 19 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson by Mary Catherine Bateson ISBN: 0060975733 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Male and Female by Margaret Mead ISBN: 0060934964 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Sex and Temperament: In 3 Primitive Societies by Margaret Mead ISBN: 0060934956 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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