A revealing portrait of fathers, mothers, sons, and daughters, brothers, sisters, and friends around the world. This rare collaboration of a distinguished anthropologist and a brilliant photographer makes this book an unusually clear, honest, and sympathetic study of relationships in the family anywhere in the world, and of the interplay of feelings among people living under the same roof. Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, often controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures shaped the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a proponent of broadening sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life. An Anglican Christian, she played a considerable part in the drafting of the 1979 American Episcopal Book of Common Prayer. Ken Heyman (b. 1930) first became interested in photography in high school, but more important was his becoming a student of Mead's at Columbia College. To fulfill a term paper requirement in one of her courses, Heyman submitted a photographic essay that interested the famous professor. Out of this began a friendship and collaboration that continued for more than twenty years. Their first collaboration began shortly after his graduation from Columbia in 1956, when she invited him to go with her to take pictures in Bali. Other field trips followed. Since then, Ken Heyman has photographed in more than sixty countries. These photographs have appeared in major exhibits and in two books co-authored with Mead - this book being one and World Enough (1976) the other.

Family

Margaret Mead

MacMillan Publishing Company

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

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

Blackberry Winter, My Early Years

Community & Culture

William Morrow Company

Growing Up In New Guinea

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Pelican / Penguin Books

Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years

Peter Smith Pub Inc

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

Such figures as Margaret Mead, R. Buckminster Fuller, Alvin Toffler, and Marshall McLuhan discuss the future of civilization

The futurists

Science & Math

ARTHUR C. CLARKE

Paul Ehrlich

Daniel Bell

Olaf Helmer

John McHale

Yujiro Hayashi

Kenneth E. Boulding

Technology

Random House]

Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap

Panther

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