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An Anthropologist at Work

Product Description: An Anthropologist at Work is the product of a long collaboration between Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead. Mead, who was Benedictâs student, colleague, and eventually her biographer, here has collected the bulk of Ruth Benedictâs writings...read more

By Margaret Mead (introduced by)

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9781412818506 | Aldine De Gruyter, August 4, 2011, cover price $42.95 | About this edition: An Anthropologist at Work is the product of a long collaboration between Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead.

Study of Visual Culture

Product Description: Margaret Mead was a pioneer in the use of film and photography to analyze culture and society. She took film and still cameras to the field and produced a series of ethnographic documents that still rank as classics. This volume collects many of her writings on visual culture together in one volume for the first time...read more

By Margaret Mead

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9781571818195 | Berghahn Books, April 30, 2011, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Margaret Mead was a pioneer in the use of film and photography to analyze culture and society.

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9781571818201 | Berghahn Books, April 30, 2011, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Margaret Mead was a pioneer in the use of film and photography to analyze culture and society.

Sexo Y Temperamento En Tres Sociedades Primitivas / Sex and Temperament In Three Primitive Societies

By Margaret Mead

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9788449319310 | Italian edition edition (Paidos Iberica Ediciones S A, September 15, 2006), cover price $22.95

To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

A compilation of personal and professional correspondence from the renowned anthropologist spans some sixty years and provides an incisive glimpse of Mead's relationships with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as her intimate thoughts on friendship, children, sexuality, marriage, career, and life.

By Mary Catherine Bateson (foreword by), Margaret M. Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (editor) and Margaret Mead

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9780465008155 | Basic Books, July 3, 2006, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: A compilation of personal and professional correspondence from the renowned anthropologist spans some sixty years and provides an incisive glimpse of Mead's relationships with family, friends, and colleagues, as well as her intimate thoughts on friendship, children, sexuality, marriage, career, and life.

Future of Humankind: Letters from the Field

By Heywood Hale Broun, Jr. (collaborator) and Margaret Mead

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9781579704131 | Una rei edition (Audio-Forum, July 31, 2006), cover price $12.95

How People Change

By Margaret Mead

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9781579703707 | Unabridged edition (Jeffrey Norton Pub, April 24, 2006), cover price $12.95

Life Is With People

Product Description: Over many hundreds of years the Shtetl, the small-town Jewish community of Eastern Europe, developed a way of life uniquely its own. Today the the life of the hundreds of interlinked small towns stretching from the eastern borders of Germany to regions of Russia has been destroyed...read more

By Elizabeth Herzog, Margaret Mead (foreword by) and Mark Zborowski

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9780823681310 | Revised edition (Intl Universities Pr Inc, March 5, 2006), cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Over many hundreds of years the Shtetl, the small-town Jewish community of Eastern Europe, developed a way of life uniquely its own.

Ruth Benedict: A Humanist In Anthropology

Product Description: By weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead presents the anthropologist's work in the context of her life and times. Mead also defends Benedict's humanistic approach to anthropology as she considers considers her most important works...read more

By Margaret Mead

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9780231134903 | 30 anv edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 30, 2005), cover price $95.00 | About this edition: By weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead presents the anthropologist's work in the context of her life and times.

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9780231134910 | 30 anv edition (Columbia Univ Pr, November 30, 2005), cover price $34.00 | About this edition: By weaving discussions of the personal and professional writings of Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead presents the anthropologist's work in the context of her life and times.

Margaret Mead And The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

Product Description: Born in the first year of the 20th century, it is fitting that Margaret Mead should have been one of the first anthropologists to use anthropological analysis to study the future course of human civilization. This volume collects, for the first time, her writings on the future of humanity and how humans can shape that future through purposeful action...read more

By Margaret Mead and Robert B. Textor (editor)

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9781571818171 | Berghahn Books, September 15, 2005, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Born in the first year of the 20th century, it is fitting that Margaret Mead should have been one of the first anthropologists to use anthropological analysis to study the future course of human civilization.

Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Abilities

Product Description: Originally published by Delacorte, Mind-Reach is the book that led to the U. S. Army's psychic spy program and the subsequent prominence of remote viewing. The protocols that physicists Targ and Puthoff developed at the Stanford Research Institute are still in use today and have proven again and again in laboratory settings that psychic ability is universal...read more

By Richard Bach (foreword by), Margaret Mead (introduced by), Harold E. Puthoff and Russell Targ

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9781571744142 | Hampton Roads Pub Co Inc, February 1, 2005, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Originally published by Delacorte, Mind-Reach is the book that led to the U.

Studying Contemporary Western Society: Method and Theory

Product Description: Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures. This volume collects and presents a variety of her essays on research methodology relating to contemporary culture...read more

By William O. Beeman (introduced by) and Margaret Mead

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9781571818157 | Berghahn Books, November 1, 2003, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures.

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9781571818164 | Berghahn Books, January 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Few anthropologists today realize the pioneering role Margaret Mead played in the investigation of contemporary cultures.

Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples

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By Margaret Mead (editor)

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9780844625706 | Enlarged edition (Peter Smith Pub Inc, November 1, 1911), cover price $13.25 | About this edition: Book by Mead, Margaret

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9780765809353 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, November 1, 2002), cover price $45.95

The Mountain Arapesh

Product Description: For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea. She found a culture based on simplicity, sensitivity, and cooperation...read more

By Margaret Mead

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9780765809858 | Transaction Pub, August 1, 2002, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: For approximately eight months during 1931-1932, anthropologist Margaret Mead lived with and studied the Mountain Arapesh-a segment of the population of the East Sepik Province, Papua New Guinea.

Reshaping Australia's Economy: Growth With Equity and Sustainability

This study draws together some of the best economists and public policy analysts in Australia to contribute to a major assessment and "audit" of the economy. It assesses the economy's recent performance in achieving an environment which encourages sustainable economic growth with an equitable income distribution. It pinpoints what is required to ensure growth with socially and environmentally acceptable outcomes for the future. (view table of contents)

By Committee for Economic Development of Australia (corporate author), Peter Lloyd (editor), Margaret Mead (editor) and John Nieuwenhuysen (editor)

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9780521812191 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 11, 2002, cover price $110.00

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9780521011204 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $44.99 | About this edition: This study draws together some of the best economists and public policy analysts in Australia to contribute to a major assessment and "audit" of the economy.

Kinship in the Admiralty Islands

Product Description: The Manus of New Guinea's Pere village were Margaret Mead's most favored community, the people to whom she returned five times before she died in 1978. Kinship in the Admiralty Islands is the classic and only thorough description of their complex rules of marriage and family relations...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Margaret Mead

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9780865274037 | Reprint edition (Howard Fertig Pub, March 1, 1992), cover price $39.50 | About this edition: The Manus of New Guinea's Pere village were Margaret Mead's most favored community, the people to whom she returned five times before she died in 1978.

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9780765807649 | Transaction Pub, December 1, 2001, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: The Manus of New Guinea's Pere village were Margaret Mead's most favored community, the people to whom she returned five times before she died in 1978.

Themes in French Culture: A Preface to a Study of French Community

Product Description: Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda MÃ©traux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Margaret Mead and Rhoda Metraux

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9781571818133 | Berghahn Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda MÃ©traux in this unique study of French culture.

9780404164904 | Ams Pr Inc, September 1, 1983, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda MÃ©traux in this unique study of French culture.

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9781571818140 | Berghahn Books, November 1, 2001, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda MÃ©traux in this unique study of French culture.

New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation--Manus, 1928-1953

Product Description: When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were living with a Stone Age technology. Economically vulnerable and burdened by a complex moral code, the Manus seemed ill-equipped to handle the massive impact that World War II had on their secluded world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Margaret Mead

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9780313221309 | Greenwood Pub Group, February 1, 1980, cover price $45.50 | About this edition: When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were living with a Stone Age technology.

9780688021696 | William Morrow & Co, June 1, 1975, cover price $8.50 | About this edition: When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were living with a Stone Age technology.

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9780060958060 | 1 edition (Perennial, November 1, 2001), cover price $18.99 | About this edition: When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were living with a Stone Age technology.

Letters from the Field, 1925-1975

Product 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Margaret Mead

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9780060129613 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1977, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: 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

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9780060958046 | 1 edition (Perennial, November 1, 2001), cover price $15.99 | About this edition: 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.

Russian Culture: The Study of Contemporary Western Cultures

Product Description: This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print. Gorer's Great Russian Culture and Mead's Soviet Attitudes towards Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character were among the first attempts by anthropologists to analyze Russian society...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Geoffrey Gorer (editor), Margaret Mead and John Rickman (editor)

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9781571812346 | Berghahn Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This volume brings together two classic works on the culture of the Russian people which have been long out of print.

Russian Culture

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By Geoffrey Gorer (editor), Margaret Mead and John Rickman (editor)

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9781571812308 | Berghahn Books, August 1, 2001, cover price $90.00

Male and Female

In Male and Female, Margaret Mead applies the findings of her landmark studies on relationships between the sexes to American society. (view table of contents)

By Margaret Mead

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9780060934965 | 1 edition (Perennial, June 1, 2001), cover price $16.99

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9781879557277 | Audio Scholar, January 1, 1995, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In Male and Female, Margaret Mead applies the findings of her landmark studies on relationships between the sexes to American society.

Sex and Temperament: In 3 Primitive Societies

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By Margaret Mead

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9780060934958 | Perennial, June 1, 2001, cover price $15.99

Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation

The classic anthropological study describes what it was like in the 1920s for girls growing up in the primitive culture of the Samoan Islands, offering provocative insights into such topics as childhood, gender roles, and culture. Reprint.

By Margaret Mead

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9780688050337 | Reprint edition (Avon A, March 1, 2001), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The classic anthropological study describes what it was like in the 1920s for girls growing up in the primitive culture of the Samoan Islands, offering provocative insights into such topics as childhood, gender roles, and culture.

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

The learning experiences of adolescents in the Manus society of New Guinea are studied and used as the framework for a discussion of the education of the young in different societies and the ways in which young people grow into full participants in their culture. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.

By Margaret Mead

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9780688178116 | Reprint edition (Harper Perennial Modern Classics, March 1, 2001), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: The learning experiences of adolescents in the Manus society of New Guinea are studied and used as the framework for a discussion of the education of the young in different societies and the ways in which young people grow into full participants in their culture.

9780688079895 | William Morrow & Co, June 1, 1976, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The learning experiences of children in Manus society are studied and used as the framework for a discussion of modern educational problems

The Study of Culture at a Distance

Product Description: The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world. Facing enemies with unfamiliar cultural traditions, the U.S. government turned to anthropologists for insight. The result was a research effort that continued long after the war, aimed, in the words of Margaret Mead, at analyzing the cultural regularities in the characters of individuals who are members of societies that are inaccessible to direct observation...read more

By Margaret Mead (editor) and Rhoda Metraux (editor)

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9781571812155 | Berghahn Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world.

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9781571812162 | Berghahn Books, August 1, 2000, cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world.

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