To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected letters of Margaret Mead
Author(s): Margaret Mead
Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist, Margaret Mead was a prolific letter writer, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. To Cherish the Life of the World presents, for the first time, her personal and professional correspondence, which spanned sixty years. These letters lend insights into Mead's relationships with interconnected circles of family, friends and colleagues, and reveal her thoughts on the nature of these relationships. With a foreword by her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, a renowned author and anthropologist in her own right, this volume of letters from Mead to those who shared her life and work offers new insight into a rich and deeply complex mind.
General Information
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- : Basic Books
- : Basic Books
- : 0.798
- : 01 August 2006
- : United States
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Margaret Mead
- : Hardback
- : 472
- : JHBK
- : illustrations
More About The Product
Margaret Caffrey is an associate professor of history at the University of Memphis and the author of a book about Margaret Mead's mentor, colleague and lover, entitled Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee. Patricia Francis was curator of "Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture", an exhibition at the Library of Congress in 2002. She lives in Washington, DC.
