Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education - Couverture souple

Mead, Margaret

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0688178111 ISBN 13 : 9780688178116

Editeur : Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2001

Synopsis

Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing village at a pivotal time -- after warfare had vanished but before missions and global commerce had begun to change their lives. She developed fascinating insights into their family lives, exploring their attitudes toward sex, marriage, the rearing of children, and the supernatural, which led her to see intriguing parallels with modern Western society. Reissued for the centennial of her birth and featuring introductions by Howard Gardner and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, this book offers important anthropological insights into human societies and vividly captures a vanished way of life.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) began her remarkable career when she visited Samoa at the age of twenty-three, which led to her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa. She went on to become one of the most influential women of our time, publishing some forty works and serving as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History as well as president of major scientific associations. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom following her death in 1978.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
• Date d'édition: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0688178111
• ISBN 13: 9780688178116
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320