Margaret Mead: A Life
Howard's definitive biography of the woman who was one of the giants of the 20th century covers Mead's professional accomplishments, three marriages, intense friendships, and groundbreaking travels. 16-page photograph insert.
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At the age of 23, in the 1920s, Margaret Mead traveled alone to the South Seas and wrote, in her now classic Coming of Age in Samoa, of adolescent sexuality and guilt-free love. For the next half-century, Margaret Mead would act as a powerful participant and opinion maker in the largest issues of her time--culture and religion, education and child rearing, sex and freedom, world hunger, war, and the politics of peace. Outrageous and extravagant, Mead was, in every sense of the word, spirited. Friendships and families of many kinds were at the core of her personal life, and she was both loyal and demanding with people, always challenging them to move in new directions. An inveterate world traveler, a teacher at Columbia University, and curator of The Museum of Natural History, Margaret Mead wrote 34 books, made 10 films, was granted 28 honorary degrees and numerous awards. This intimate and fascinating story is an astonishing record of the personal and scientific life of an extraordinary human being.
Preface: Many More Than Both Ways11Part 11"Like a Family of Refugees"212"Now We're All Bobbed!"373"A Companion in Harness"514"Be Lazy Go Crazy"605Samoa766The Voyage of the Chitral907"A Dreadful Blue Fit"97Part 28"Now Piyap Can Write It Down"1119"Climbing at Forty Thousand Feet"12610"The Limits of Outrage"13911"The Closest I've Ever Come to Madness"15412Between Conjugal Domiciles16713"The Batesons Are Not to Be Bullied"18814"In the Center of the Planning"21115Taking on Hitler and Hunger22816"Peace, Queen Esther Victory Speaking"24317"I Couldn't Keep Up"25318"The Most Brilliant Army Ever Assembled"270Part 319No More Top on the Roll-top Desk28520"A Little Minuet in Cotton Dresses"29821"You Only Saw a Fragment of the Iceberg"31122"Teach Me Something!"32423"Bishops May Not, but Anthropologists Do"34024"These Tremendous Transferences"35525How the Legend Got Her Cudgel372Part 426Elder Statescreature38527"But This Is Different"408Afterword: "I Know She Can Hear Me"425Acknowledgments443Notes447Selected Bibliography489Selected Margaret Mead Books495Selected Margaret Mead Articles497Recent Articles Concerning Mead-Freeman Controversy502Index505
