| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 366 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and 30s, was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could help sum up the national character of the most complex, modern societies and produce better wartime strategies. This book follows her and her closest collaborators to their triumphant climax when Mead was chosen to be one of the principal cultural ambassadors from America to Britain in 1943. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
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Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978. |
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Cold War (1945-1989) |
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World War (1939-1945) |
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Influence.
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Cold War -- Influence.
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Cultural relativism.
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Cultural relativism. |
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Anthropology -- Government policy -- United States.
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Anthropology -- Government policy. |
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United States. |
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Anthropology. |
| Chronological Term |
1939-1945 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9780300187854 0300187858 (DLC) 2012051253 |
| ISBN |
0300189702 (electronic book) |
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9780300189704 (electronic book) |
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9780300187854 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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0300187858 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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