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Letters from the field 1925-1975

Paperback • 2002 • English • 1. edition

Letters from the field 1925-1975

By Mead, Margaret

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About the book

Margaret Mead was famous for keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends as we see in this collection of wonderfully revealing correspondence from the field. Written over a period of half a century, these letters to friends, family, and colleagues detail her first fieldwork in Samoa and go on to record her now famous anthropological endeavors in mainland New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali. Enhanced by photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny, and often poetic letters t...Show more

Diaries, letters and journals
Anthropology
Social and cultural anthropology

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ISBN

9780060958046

Publisher

HarperPerennial

Published year

2002

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Letters from the field 1925-1975

Format

Paperback

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