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Return from the Natives

How Margaret Mead Won the Second World War and Lost the Cold War

Return from the Natives( )
Author: Mandler, Peter
ISBN:978-0-300-18785-4
Publication Date:May 2013
Publisher:Yale University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $45.00
Book Description:

Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and '30s, was determined to show that anthropology could tackle the psychology of the most complex, modern societies in ways useful for waging the Second World War. This fascinating book follows Mead and her closest collaborators--her lover and mentor Ruth Benedict, her third husband Gregory Bateson, and her prospective fourth husband Geoffrey Gorer--through their...
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