Mead, Margaret 1901-1978

Blackberry winter; my earlier years by Margaret Mead ( Book )
67 editions published between 1972 and 1995 in 7 languages and held by 3,555 libraries worldwide
The autobiography of a pioneer, this is Margaret Mead's story of her life as a woman and as an anthropologist. An enduring cultural icon, she came to represent the new woman, successfully combining motherhood with career, and scholarship with concern for its role in the lives of ordinary people.

Coming of age in Samoa : a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilization by Margaret Mead ( Book )
203 editions published between 1928 and 2008 in 13 languages and held by 3,353 libraries worldwide
Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike. Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Annotation. Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike. Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Annotation. Reprint of Mead's classic, which is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed.

Male and female, a study of the sexes in a changing world by Margaret Mead ( Book )
142 editions published between 1941 and 2006 in 11 languages and held by 2,921 libraries worldwide
The substance of this book was given as the Jacob Gimbel lectures in sex psychology under the auspices of Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, California, November, 1946.

Culture and commitment; a study of the generation gap by Margaret Mead ( Book )
27 editions published between 1970 and 1972 in English and held by 2,710 libraries worldwide

Sex and temperament in three primitive societies by Margaret Mead ( Book )
109 editions published between 1935 and 2008 in 14 languages and held by 2,162 libraries worldwide
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New lives for old; cultural transformation--Manus, 1928-1953 by Margaret Mead ( Book )
40 editions published between 1956 and 2001 in English and held by 2,156 libraries worldwide

Growing up in New Guinea; a comparative study of primitive education by Margaret Mead ( Book )
58 editions published between 1930 and 2001 in English and held by 2,056 libraries worldwide

Continuities in cultural evolution by Margaret Mead ( Book )
23 editions published between 1964 and 1999 in 4 languages and held by 2,023 libraries worldwide
"Margaret Mead once said, "I have spent most of my life studying the lives of other peoples - faraway peoples - so that Americans might better understand themselves." Continuities in Cultural Evolution is evidence of this devotion. It began as the Terry Lectures, given at Yale in 1957 and was not published until 1964, after extensive reworking. The time she spent on revision is evidence of the importance Mead attached to the subject: the need to develop a truly evolutionary vision of human culture and society."--BOOK JACKET.

And keep your powder dry; an anthropologist looks at America by Margaret Mead ( Book )
36 editions published between 1942 and 2000 in English and held by 2,007 libraries worldwide

Letters from the field, 1925-1975 by Margaret Mead ( Book )
33 editions published between 1900 and 2002 in 4 languages and held by 1,983 libraries worldwide
Interviewed by Heywood Hale Broun, Margaret Mead talks about her book and her experiences.