Margaret Mead: Coming of Age in America

by Joan T. Mark and Joan Mark

Book Overview

The American anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was barely 24 years old when she left New York to study the natives of Samoa, New Guinea, and other remote Pacific islands. Anthropological research to her was not a dull academic discipline but an adventure in which every little detail,
from Balinese ritual dances to Polynesian tattooing, held enormous fascination. Her 1928 book--Coming of Age in Samoa--made her both famous and controversial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195116798
• ISBN13: 9780195116793
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.8" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12