Lutkehaus,Nancy C.
Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon.
Princeton, Princeton Univ. Press
2008,
cm.16x24,
pp.374,
legatura ed.in tutta tela,sopraccoperta fig.a col.
INTRODUCTION: Mead as American Icon
Margaret Mead was the best-known, and most controversial, anthropologist in twentieth-century America. Born in 1901, Mead died in 1978, thus her life spanned the greater part of the period Henry Luce first referred to as “the American century.” It is also the century in which the science of anthropology came to maturity. By the time of her death in 1978, Mead had become a media celebrity and an iconic figure who represented a range of different ideas, values, and beliefs to a broad spectrum of the American public—critics and supporters alike. For many she also came to symbolize the...
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