Letters from the field, 1925-1975
By: Margaret Mead ; [with an introduction by Jan Morris].
Edition: 1st Perennial ed.
Publisher: Perennial
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 389
Subjects: Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 -- Correspondence; Anthropologists -- United States -- Correspondence; Ethnology -- Melanesia; Ethnology -- Field work
Genres: Correspondence.
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliography (p. [353]-357) and index.
"This edition reprints volume LII of the World perspectives series"--T.p. verso.