Letters from the Field 1925-1975

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Beginning in 1925 mead sent family and friends these letters from the field "to make a little more real for them" the exotic worlds that absorbed her. 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".

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Margaret Mead (1901 - 1978) began her remarkable career when she visited Samoa a the age of 23. She went on to publish some 40 works and to serve as curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History as well as president of major scientific associations. She was awarded the Presidential medal of Freedom following her death in 1978.