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Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World is a 1949 book by the American anthropologist Margaret Mead. It is a comparative study of tribal men and women on seven Pacific islands and men and women in the United States.
Margaret Mead, the first of five children, was born in Philadelphia but raised in nearby Doylestown, Pennsylvania.Her father, Edward Sherwood Mead, was a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and her mother, Emily (née Fogg) Mead, [5] was a sociologist who studied Italian immigrants. [6]
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The 1st edition PDF is in the public domain. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a 1928 book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Taʻū in American Samoa.
Growing Up in New Guinea is a 1930 publication by Margaret Mead. The book is about her encounters with the indigenous people of the Manus Province of Papua New Guinea before they had been changed by missionaries and other western influences. She compares their views on family, marriage, sex, child rearing, and religious beliefs to those of ...
Benjamin Breen, a young historian at UC Santa Cruz, has written a gripping new book that tells a remarkable story.“Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of ...
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A Rap on Race is a 1971 non-fiction book co-authored by the writer and social critic James Baldwin and the anthropologist Margaret Mead. It consists of transcripts of conversations held between the pair in August 1970.