Letters From The Field 1925 1975

Author : Margaret Mead
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780062566188

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Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 by Margaret Mead Pdf

Beginning in 1925, when at twenty-three she embarked on her first field work in Samoa, Mead sent family and friends these letters from the field “to make a little more real for them” the exotic worlds that absorbed her. In this complement to her bestselling memoir Blackberry Winter, Mead has assembled selected letters she wrote from Samoa in 1925-26; from Peré Village, Manus, in the Admiralty Islands, in 1928-29; from the Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli, New Guinea, in 1932-33; from Bali and the Iatmul, New Guinea, in 1936-39; from Manus again in 1953; and during brief visits in the sixties and seventies to Manus, several new Guinea sites, and Montserrat in the West Indies. Enhanced by more than 100 photographs, these intelligent, vivid, frequently funny and sometimes poetic letters help us share with Mead “the unique, but also cumulative, experience of immersing oneself in the on-going life of another people, . . .attempting to understand mentally and physically this other version of reality.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:28660342

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Letters from the Field by Anonim Pdf

Author : Robert G. Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134897513

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Field Research by Robert G. Burgess Pdf

There are now numerous textbooks, sets of readings and reflections on doing socialresearch. Much of this textbook material is American and deals with the way in whichsocial research and in particular social surveys should be done. These 'cookbook'approaches to social research omit discussions of the interplay between research methodsand research experience. Accordingly, research biographies have been produced in whicheditors have invited researchers to 'come clean' about the way in which research isactually done. While such accounts are high on description of the research process, theyare ofte.

Author : Elesha J. Coffman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780192571885

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Margaret Mead by Elesha J. Coffman Pdf

For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. While serving as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of articles, scholarly and popular, on topics ranging from adolescence to atomic energy, Polynesian kinship networks to kindergarten, national morale to marijuana. At her death in 1978, she was the most famous anthropologist in the world and one of the best-known women in America. She had amply achieved her goal, as she described it to an interviewer in 1975, "To have lived long enough to be of some use." As befits her prominence, Mead has had many biographers, but there is a curious hole at the center of these accounts: Mead's faith. Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith introduces a side of its subject that few people know. It re-narrates her life and reinterprets her work, highlighting religious concerns. Following Mead's lead, it ranges across areas that are typically kept academically distinct: anthropology, gender studies, intellectual history, church history, and theology. It is a portrait of a mind at work, pursuing a unique vision of the good of the world.

Author : Joan Gordan
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9783110819045

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Margaret Mead by Joan Gordan Pdf

Author : Diane Bell,Pat Caplan,Wazir Jahan Karim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-07-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136121647

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Gendered Fields by Diane Bell,Pat Caplan,Wazir Jahan Karim Pdf

Virtually all anthropologists undertaking fieldwork experience emotional difficulties in relating their own personal culture to the field culture. The issue of gender arises because ethnographers do fieldwork by establishing relationships, and this is done as a person of a particular age, sexual orientation, belief, educational background, ethnic identity and class. In particular it is done as men and women. Gendered Fields examines and explores the progress of feminist anthropology, the gendered nature of fieldwork itself, and the articulation of gender with other aspects of the self of the ethnographer.

Author : Steven Weiland
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 1412826381

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Intellectual Craftsmen by Steven Weiland Pdf

Weiland highlights the master trends in the American experience by the master reporters of those trends. Intellectual Craftsmen covers the best writers in the social sciences from 1935 to 1991. Included are essays on John Dollard in social psychology; C. Wright Mills's version of historical sociology; David Riesman and the element of social criticism; Margaret Mead and the search for an anthropological method.

Author : William Y. Adams
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780761868033

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The Boasians by William Y. Adams Pdf

This book is a study in depth of the work of Franz Boas and twenty of his students at Columbia University in the early years of the twentieth century. Collectively they laid the entire institutional as well as the intellectual foundations of American anthropology as it exists today.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1978-07
Category : Electronic
ISBN : WISC:89062387576

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The Living Church by Anonim Pdf

Author : John R. Shook
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 2759 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781843710370

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Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers by John R. Shook Pdf

The Dictionary of Modern American Philosophers includes both academic and non-academic philosophers, anda large number of female and minority thinkers whose work has been neglected. It includes those intellectualsinvolved in the development of psychology, pedagogy, sociology, anthropology, education, theology, politicalscience, and several other fields, before these disciplines came to be considered distinct from philosophy in thelate nineteenth century.Each entry contains a short biography of the writer, an exposition and analysis of his or her doctrines and ideas, abibliography of writings, and suggestions for further reading. While all the major post-Civil War philosophers arepresent, the most valuable feature of this dictionary is its coverage of a huge range of less well-known writers,including hundreds of presently obscure thinkers. In many cases, the Dictionary of Modern AmericanPhilosophers offers the first scholarly treatment of the life and work of certain writers. This book will be anindispensable reference work for scholars working on almost any aspect of modern American thought.

Author : Dolores Janiewski,Lois W. Banner
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0801879752

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Reading Benedict / Reading Mead by Dolores Janiewski,Lois W. Banner Pdf

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Author : Robert G. Burgess
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781134898145

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In the Field by Robert G. Burgess Pdf

An authoritative guide to the problems and procedures associated with data collection and analysis in field research.

Author : Robert Rehder,Patrick Vincent
Publisher : Gunter Narr Verlag
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : American poetry
ISBN : 3823362712

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American Poetry by Robert Rehder,Patrick Vincent Pdf

Author : Frank A. Salamone
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 101 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781443839600

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The Heroic Anthropologist Rides Again by Frank A. Salamone Pdf

This collection of papers, presented at the 2011 American Anthropological Association meetings in Montreal, Canada, represent the beginning of the anthropological investigation of the way in which anthropologist have been portrayed in popular culture. Frank A. Salamone provides an overview of the field today, looking for depictions of anthropologists in various genres – film, fiction, TV, and everyday life. The contributors look at specific portrayals of anthropologists in popular media, including using popular fiction to teach anthropology. The work is lively, accessible, and profound.

Author : Jane Carter Goodale,Ann Chowning
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0847682641

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Two-party Line by Jane Carter Goodale,Ann Chowning Pdf

This honest glimpse into the nature of ethnographic fieldwork, revolves around letters written by the author to illustrate the daily adventures of learning to understand a largely unknown culture through participant observation and interactive discourse.