Letters from the field 1925-1975.
- New York - US Harper Colophon 1977
- 361 p. ilus.
Contiene: This collection of letters, written by Mead over a period of half a century, provides a fascinating insight into the world of the field anthropologist. The letters illuminate the torture of working under primitive conditions-narrowly escaping death in a tropical storm by hiding in a tub, fighting off mosquitoes with draculan appetites-but also the humor that comes when one is working close to danger and the unknown. These letters can only add to her reputation as the world's most popular and respected, anthropologist- Chicago tribune. I have always thought Margaret Mead lives a charmed life, and this book provesit. She has had one of the most stupendously successful careers of any woman-indeed of any scholar of either sex-in this century. She has contributed so vigorously to her science for fifty year that to a vast American and international public she is anthropology. Beyond this she has derived deep personal and intellectual satisfaction from her career; she lived to see the stoneage societies she studied forge courageously into the modern world-Washington Post. To read letter from a friend in the field when that friend is Margaret Mead is a unique experience-Natural History. If letters should informally disclose their author's life and thought.