Margaret Mead (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Edward Rice
- First Published: 1979
- Time of Work: 1901–1978
- Setting: The United States, Samoa, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali
- Principal Characters: Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, Luther Cressman, Reo Fortune, Gregory Bateson
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Gender roles, Authors or writers, Education or educators, Asia or Asians, Fame, Anthropology or anthropologists, Biography, Social sciences
- Locales: United States, Samoa, Bali, Admiralty Islands
Form and Content
In Margaret Mead: A Portrait, Edward Rice strives to present exactly that—a picture of the United States’ foremost anthropologist. Rice attempts, however, rather more than a static snapshot. Instead, he tries to show how the world’s influence upon Mead made her what she was, as well as how Mean’s influence upon the world will help to make it what it will become.
Part I explores Mead’s early life, her checkered and sporadic education, and her relationship with her paternal grandmother, whom she called “the most decisive influence” of...
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