The Study of Culture at a Distance
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. In 1953, Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux produced The Study of Culture at a Distance, a compilation of research from this period. This remarkable work, long unavailable, presents a…
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Weitere Autoren: Metraux, Rhoda (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-57181-215-5
- EAN: 9781571812155
- Produktnummer: 16497489
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 576 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D3.4 cm 849 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 849
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Margaret Mead served as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1925 to 1969. She began her career with a study of youth and adolescence in Samoan society, published as Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). She published prolifically, becoming a seminal figure in anthropology, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979.
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