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Author Mark, Joan T., 1937-2015

Title Margaret Mead : coming of age in America / Joan Mark.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [1999]
©1999

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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Jefferson Branch - Children's Department  J92 MEAD    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Children's Department  J92 MEAD    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Children's Department  JB-MEAD    Check Shelf
Description 110 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series Oxford portraits in science
Oxford portraits in science.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 104-106) and index.
Contents Becoming an anthropologist -- Coming of age in Samoa and growing up in New Guinea -- Male and female in New Guinea -- With Gregory Bateson in Bali -- Helping a nation at war -- A public figure.
Summary Traces the life and work of the noted woman anthropologist whose studies of primitive cultures established her as an authority in her field.
Subject Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 -- Juvenile literature.
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
Women anthropologists -- United States -- Biography -- Juvenile literature.
Ethnology -- Melanesia -- Juvenile literature.
Anthropologists.
Women -- Biography.
Melanesia -- Social life and customs -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN 0195116798 alkaline paper
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