The anthropologist Margaret Mead garnered fame and generated
controversy in a full life that spanned most of the 20th century.
She was a maverick with a strong and sometimes difficult
personality, and this biography follows her from childhood years in
Pennsylvania, to college days with her pals nicknamed the Ash Can
Cats, to tutelage under the preeminent anthropologist, Franz Boas,
at Columbia, and her fieldwork in the South Pacific, starting in
Samoa when she was 22 years of age. Private and public are
interwoven, with coverage of her marriages, close friendships,
writings, and career progression. Mead has special appeal to teens
because of her work with and theories on this age group.
Readers will be inspired by Mead's individualism and career in
anthropology in its golden age. They will also appreciate the
insights into her writings, including her autobiography. Mead's
viewpoints on myriad topics are presented, with a final note on her
impact and an imagining of what she would say about the world
today. A chronology and glossary supplement the text.
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