Bibliograph

Letters from the field, 1925-1975, Margaret Mead

Type

Label

Letters from the field, 1925-1975, Margaret Mead

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Letters from the field, 1925-1975

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Margaret Mead

Series statement

World perspectives, v. 52

Summary

Margaret Mead was famous for keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends as we see in this collection of wonderfully revealing correspondence from the field. Written over a period of half a century, these letters to friends, family, and colleagues detail her first fieldwork in Samoa and go on to record her now famous anthropological endeavors in mainland New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali. Enhanced by photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny, and often poetic letters tell us much about Mead's passion for and understanding of preliterate cultures. But they are equally valuable as a fundamental text on the science -- and art -- of anthropology. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Jan Morris and Mead's daughter. Mary Catherine Bateson

Target audience

adult

Classification

Contributor