Margaret Mead: A Biography

by Mary Bowman-Kruhm

Book Overview

The anthropologist Margaret Mead garnered fame and generated controversy in a full life that spanned most of the 20th century. She was a maverick with a strong and sometimes difficult personality, and this biography follows her from childhood years in Pennsylvania, to college days with her pals nicknamed the Ash Can Cats, to tutelage under the preeminent anthropologist, Franz Boas, at Columbia, and her fieldwork in the South Pacific, starting in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313322678
• ISBN13: 9780313322679
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.7"