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And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

By Margaret Mead

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2000
ISBN
9781782384748
DOI
10.1515/9781782384748
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
661 kB (676621 bytes)
Series
Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Culture; 2
Pages
256\256
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 04:21:41

Description

Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States - the first since de Tocqueville - in 1942 at the beginnning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers from both Europe and Asia in a particularly challenging manner. Mead's work became an instant classic. It was required reading for anthropology students for nearly two decades, and was widely translated. It was revised and expanded in 1965 for a second generation of readers. Among the more controversial conclusions of her analysis are the denial of class as a motivating force in American culture, and her contention that culture is the primary determinant for individual character formation. Her process remains lucid, vivid, and arresting. As a classic study of a complex western society, it remains a monument to anthropological analysis.

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