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Margaret Mead, a life / Jane Howard.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Simon and Schuster, c1984.Description: 527 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0671252259
  • 9780671252250
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • GN21.M36 H69 1984
Contents:
Preface: Many More Than Both Ways -- "Like a Family of Refugees" -- "Now We're All Bobbed!" -- "A Companion in Harness" -- "Be Lazy Go Crazy" -- Samoa -- The Voyage of the Chitral -- "A Dreadful Blue Fit" -- "Now Piyap Can Write It Down" -- "Climbing at Forty Thousand Feet" -- "The Limits of Outrage" -- "The Closest I've Ever Come to Madness" -- Between Conjugal Domiciles -- "The Batesons Are Not to Be Bullied" -- "In the Center of the Planning" -- Taking on Hitler and Hunger -- "Peace, Queen Esther Victory Speaking" -- "I Couldn't Keep Up" -- "The Most Brilliant Army Ever Assembled" -- No More Top on the Roll-top Desk -- "A Little Minuet in Cotton Dresses" -- "You Only Saw a Fragment of the Iceberg" -- "Teach Me Something!" -- "Bishops May Not, but Anthropologists Do" -- "These Tremendous Transferences" -- How the Legend Got Her Cudgel -- Elder Statescreature -- "But This Is Different" -- Afterword: "I Know She Can Hear Me."
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks GN21.M36H69 1984 1 Available 33710001074611

Bibliography: p. 489-503.

Includes index.

Preface: Many More Than Both Ways -- "Like a Family of Refugees" -- "Now We're All Bobbed!" -- "A Companion in Harness" -- "Be Lazy Go Crazy" -- Samoa -- The Voyage of the Chitral -- "A Dreadful Blue Fit" -- "Now Piyap Can Write It Down" -- "Climbing at Forty Thousand Feet" -- "The Limits of Outrage" -- "The Closest I've Ever Come to Madness" -- Between Conjugal Domiciles -- "The Batesons Are Not to Be Bullied" -- "In the Center of the Planning" -- Taking on Hitler and Hunger -- "Peace, Queen Esther Victory Speaking" -- "I Couldn't Keep Up" -- "The Most Brilliant Army Ever Assembled" -- No More Top on the Roll-top Desk -- "A Little Minuet in Cotton Dresses" -- "You Only Saw a Fragment of the Iceberg" -- "Teach Me Something!" -- "Bishops May Not, but Anthropologists Do" -- "These Tremendous Transferences" -- How the Legend Got Her Cudgel -- Elder Statescreature -- "But This Is Different" -- Afterword: "I Know She Can Hear Me."