Title: Margaret Mead, a life /
Authors: Howard, Jane,
Date: 1984
Publisher: Simon and Schuster,
Physical description: 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm
Language: English
LC classification: G
Abstract: Describes the cultural anthropologist's life, work and personal characteristics and relationships.
Contents: Preface: Many More Than Both Ways -- "Like a Family of Refugees" -- "Now We're All Bobbed!" -- "A Companion in Harness" -- "Be Lazy Go Crazy" -- Samoa -- The Voyage of the Chitral -- "A Dreadful Blue Fit" -- "Now Piyap Can Write It Down" -- "Climbing at Forty Thousand Feet" -- "The Limits of Outrage" -- "The Closest I've Ever Come to Madness" -- Between Conjugal Domiciles -- "The Batesons Are Not to Be Bullied" -- "In the Center of the Planning" -- Taking on Hitler and Hunger -- "Peace, Queen Esther Victory Speaking" -- "I Couldn't Keep Up" -- "The Most Brilliant Army Ever Assembled" -- No More Top on the Roll-top Desk -- "A Little Minuet in Cotton Dresses" -- "You Only Saw a Fragment of the Iceberg" -- "Teach Me Something!" -- "Bishops May Not, but Anthropologists Do" -- "These Tremendous Transferences" -- How the Legend Got Her Cudgel -- Elder Statescreature -- "But This Is Different" -- Afterword: "I Know She Can Hear Me."
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Anthropologists--United States--Biography.; Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.