Continuities in Cultural Evolution. (Terry Lectures) - Hardcover

Mead, Margaret

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300007620 ISBN 13: 9780300007626

Publisher: Yale University Press, 1964

Synopsis

471pp. A part of The Terry Lectures. DJ: minute wears. Very Good+++ Inside: Near Fine.

About this title

About the Author

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) was associated with the American Museum of Natural History in New York for over fifty years, becoming curator of ethnology in 1964. She taught at Columbia University and the New School for Social Research as well as many other universities throughout her lifetime. Some of her books include Culture and Commitment, Continuities in Cultural Evolution, andThe Mountain Arapesh.

Stephen E. Toulmin is the Henry R. Luce Professor for the Center for Multiethnic and Transnational Studies at the University of Southern California. His works include The Inner Life, the Outer Mind; Cosmopolis: The Hidden Agenda of Modernity; and Beyond Theory.

Review

"Margaret Mead lives on. She is with us in the brilliant studies she conducted on human behavior; she lives on in the many books she has authored; her ideas thrive in the minds of her students whom she stimulated with her zeal and zest for the search for knowledge and truth." 

—Senator Jacob K. Javits, The Congressional Report 

"Margaret Mead was a unique person, prodigious in her work and achievements. She almost single-handedly represented us to the public by her gift for depicting, beautifully and with deep respect, other cultures and other peoples." 

—Donald F. Tuzin and Theodore Schwartz, Oceania 

Edition details

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 1964
• ISBN 10: 0300007620
• ISBN 13: 9780300007626
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 493