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Margaret Mead - A Twentieth-Century Faith (Hardcover)
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Margaret Mead - A Twentieth-Century Faith (Hardcover)
Series: Spiritual Lives
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For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and
Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American
Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at
Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of
articles, scholarly and popular, on topics ranging from adolescence
to atomic energy, Polynesian kinship networks to kindergarten,
national morale to marijuana. At her death in 1978, she was the
most famous anthropologist in the world and one of the best-known
women in America. She had amply achieved her goal, as she described
it to an interviewer in 1975, "To have lived long enough to be of
some use." As befits her prominence, Mead has had many biographers,
but there is a curious hole at the center of these accounts: Mead's
faith. Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith introduces a side
of its subject that few people know. It re-narrates her life and
reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns. Following
Mead's lead, it ranges across areas that are typically kept
academically distinct: anthropology, gender studies, intellectual
history, church history, and theology. It is a portrait of a mind
at work, pursuing a unique vision of the good of the world.
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