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Author:

Mark, Joan T., 1937-

Title:

Margaret Mead : coming of age in America / Joan Mark.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1999

Description:

110 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Mead, Margaret,--1901-1978.
Women anthropologists--Biography.
Ethnology.
Women--Biography.
Melanesia--Social life and customs.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-106) and index.

Contents:

Becoming an anthropologist -- Coming of age in Samoa and growing up in New Guinea -- Male and female in New Guinea -- With Gregory Bateson in Bali -- Helping a nation at war -- A public figure.

Summary:

Traces the life and work of the noted woman anthropologist whose studies of primitive cultures established her as an authority in her field.

Series:

Oxford portraits in science

ISBN:

9780195116793
0195116798 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

98018604

Locations:

MXPG943 -- Fort Dodge Public Library (Fort Dodge)