A selection of the acclaimed anthropologist's letters written during her early, extended field trips in Samoa, the Admiralty Islands, New Guinea, and Bali and during brief, later visits

Letters From the Field, 1925 - 1975

Biographies & Memoirs

Margaret Mead

Professionals & Academics

Harper&Row

Religious Perspectives represents a quest for the rediscovery of man.  It constitutes an effort to define man's search for the essence of being in order that he may have a knowledge of goals.  It is an endeavor to show that there is no possibility of achieving an understanding of man's total nature on the basis of phenomena known by the analytical method alone.  It hopes to point to the false antimony between revelation and reason, faith and knowledge, grace and nature, courage and anxiety.  Mathematics, physics, philosophy, biology, and religion, in spite of their almost complete independence, have begun to sense their interrelatedness and to become aware of that mode of cognition which teaches that "the light is not without but within me, and I myself am the light."

Twentieth Century Faith: Hope and Survival

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.

Letters from the Field, 1925-1975

HarperCollins, Publishers

Blackberry Winter, My Early Years

Community & Culture

William Morrow Company

Growing Up In New Guinea

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pelican / Penguin Books

Coming of Age in Samoa; a Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization

Mentor Books

Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years

Peter Smith Pub Inc

Coming of age in Samoa; a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation

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Coming of age in Samoa; a Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation

Franklin Classics Trade Press

Fair paperback. Pages clean, contains some highlighting/underlining. Some page edge and corner bumps/bends. Covers show edge wear with rubbing and creases.

Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap

Sociology

DOUBLEDAY

In an updated edition of her earlier work, Mead considers the changes which the values of the '70s have made in relationships between the generations

Culture & Commitment

Anchor

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