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Author Lutkehaus, Nancy C

Title Margaret Mead : the making of an American icon / Nancy C. Lutkehaus
Published Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description xviii, 374 pages ; 25 cm
Contents Introduction: Mead as American Icon -- Ch. 1. Mead as Modern Woman -- Ch. 2. Images of the Mature Mead -- Ch. 3. Mead as Anthropologist: "Sex in the South Seas" -- Ch. 4. Mead as Anthropologist: "To Study Cannibals" -- Ch. 5. Mead as Anthropologist: "To Find Out How Girls Learn to Be Girls" -- Ch. 6. Mead and the Image of the Anthropologist -- Ch. 7. Mead as Scientist -- Ch. 8. Mead as Public Intellectual and Celebrity -- Ch. 9. The Posthumous Mead, or Mead, the Public Anthropologist -- Abbreviations of Archival Sources
Summary "Using photographs, films, television appearances, and materials from newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals, Lutkehaus explores the ways in which Mead became an American cultural heroine. Identifying four key images associated with her - the New Woman, the Anthropologist/Adventurer, the Scientist, and the Public Intellectual - Lutkehaus examines the various meanings that different segments of American society assigned to Mead throughout her lengthy career as a public figure. The author shows that Mead came to represent a new set of values and ideas - about women, non-Western peoples, culture, and America's role in the twentieth century - that have significantly transformed society and become generally accepted today. Lutkehaus also considers why there has been no other anthropologist since Mead to become as famous."
"Margaret Mead is an engaging look at how one woman's life and accomplishments resonated with the issues that shaped American society and changed her into a celebrity and cultural icon."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
Women anthropologists -- United States -- Biography.
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 2008001570
ISBN 9780691009414 (hbk.)
0691009414 (hbk.)