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Title: The Study of Culture at a Distance (Margaret Mead--Researching Western Contemporary Cultures, V. 1) by Margaret Mead, Rhoda Metraux, William Beeman ISBN: 1-57181-216-4 Publisher: Berghahn Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.50

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: I couldn't believe this was written 50 years ago
Comment: This is an amazing forgotten book. Anyone who wants to understand how to analyze culture through film and literature should read this and see how the masters did it. Cultural studies types really need this book to understand something about methodology. Who would have ever thought that Mead wrote about France and Russia! It just goes to show you that just when we think we have made intellectual progress people like Mead and Metraux surface and prove that we are just reinventing the wheel.

Rating: 5
Summary: What a surprise! A fascinating book1
Comment: Anyone who thinks that Margaret Mead only concerned herself with adolescents in Samoa is in for a surprise. This book shows how much anyone concerned with MODERN culture is in Mead's debt. This book, written in 1953 was decades ahead of the crowd in understanding complex societies, and in formulating research methods. Fully 120 (!) researchers working under Mead's leadership investigated China, France, Eastern European Jewish Culture, Russia and Germany. They had astonishingly penetrating, fascinating insights into these and a dozen other societies documented in this study. Their analysis of film, poetry, and psychological literature for these societies is without parallel, and amazing for the 1950's. This book is a treasure. My gratitude to the publisher (Berghahn Books) for republishing it!