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9781571812155: The Study of Culture at a Distance: 1 (Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Culture, 1)
ISBN 10: 1571812156 ISBN 13: 9781571812155
Editorial: Berghahn Books, 2000

Sinopsis

The United States on the eve of the Second World War was still a society largely isolated from the world. Facing enemies with unfamiliar cultural traditions, the U.S. government turned to anthropologists for insight. The result was a research effort that continued long after the war, aimed, in the words of Margaret Mead, at analyzing the cultural regularities in the characters of individuals who are members of societies that are inaccessible to direct observation. In 1953, Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux produced The Study of Culture at a Distance, a compilation of research from this period. This remarkable work, long unavailable, presents a rich and complex methodology for the study of cultures through literature, film, informant interviews, focus groups, and projective techniques. The book also provides fascinating insights into such diverse cultures as China, Thailand, Italy, Syria, France, Germany, Russia, Romania, and Great Britain, and includes some highly original analysis such as that of the Soviet style of chess, a study of Jean Cocteau’s classic film La Belle et la Bête, and the cultural interpretations of Rorschach tests administered to Chinese subjects.

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Margaret Mead served as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1925 to 1969. She began her career with a study of youth and adolescence in Samoan society, published as Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). She published prolifically, becoming a seminal figure in anthropology, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979.

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Editorial
Berghahn Books
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
1571812156
ISBN 13 
9781571812155
Encuadernación
Encuadernación de biblioteca
Número de páginas
576
Editor
Mead Margaret, Metraux Rhoda
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Persona responsable
gpsr@libri.de
gpsr@libri.de

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