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Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict The Kinship of Women

Paperback • 1999 • English

Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict The Kinship of Women

By Hilary Lapsley

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About the book

This book tells the story of the extraordinary friendship between renowned anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. First as mentor and protégé, later as colleagues and lovers, these two remarkable yet temperamentally different women forged a bond that endured for twenty-five years, defying convention as well as easy categorization. Drawing on a broad range of sources, including recently released correspondence between Mead and Benedict, Hilary Lapsley reconstructs this complex relations...Show more

Biography: arts and entertainment
Anthropology
Social and cultural anthropology

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ISBN

9781558492950

Publisher

University of Massachusetts Press

Published year

1999

Language

English

Original title

Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict The Kinship of Women

Format

Paperback

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