Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 | Letters from the Field, 1925-1975

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Author: Margaret Mead
First Published: 1977
Type of Work: Letters
Time of Work: 1925-1975
Setting: Samoa, New Guinea, Bali, the West Indies, and Nebraska
Principal Characters: Margaret Mead, Reo F. Fortune, Gregory Bateson
Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir, Letters, Anthropology
Subjects: Culture, Adolescence, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Islands, Anthropology or anthropologists, Pacific Ocean, Research, Oceania
Locales: West Indies, Nebraska, New Guinea, Samoa, Bali

Margaret Mead’s Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 is a selection of letters written by Mead while on anthropological field trips to provide “one record, a very personal record, of what it has meant to be a practicing anthropologist over the last fifty years.” She recognizes that fieldwork is only one aspect of the anthropologist’s work. She even admits the inevitable subjectivity to be found in any individual observer’s account. Yet she emphasizes that fieldwork—“immersing oneself in the ongoing life of another people, suspending for the...

Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 | Letters from the Field, 1925-1975

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