Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Margaret Mead

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ISBN 10 : 1330103815 ISBN 13 : 9781330103814

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

If a long line of devoted biologists had been breed ing guinea pigs or fruit ?ies for a hundred years and recording the results, and some careless Vandal burnt the painstaking record and killed the survivors, we would cry out in anger at the loss to science. Yet, when history, without any such set purpose, has presented us with the results of not a hundred years'' experiment on guinea pigs, but a thousand years'' experiment on human beings, we permit the records to be extinguished with out a protest.

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1330103815
• ISBN 13: 9781330103814
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 390
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