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During her lifetime, Margaret Mead (1901-78) was the world's most famous anthropologist. In this insightful memoir, she recalls her childhood, her place in her family, and how the lessons learned and ideals instilled then shaped her life. Margaret Mead was the first child of a university professor father and a social activist mother; her paternal grandmother, who lived with the family, had been a school principal and taught the Mead children at home for much of their youth. In college, Margaret discovered anthropology and as a graduate student went to Samoa to conduct the research of adolescent girls that resulted in her then-shocking study, Coming of Age in Samoa. In Blackberry Winter, she reflects on her life and work, through three marriages and ground-breaking fieldwork in eight cultures. But perhaps her most fascinating revelations are the "gathered threads" of her own experience of childhood, motherhood, and grandparenthood. From her observations of sex roles, childhood, and parenting styles in other cultures, her appreciation of her own upbringing, and her shift to single, working motherhood after the break-up of her third marriage, she anticipated and pioneered a new model for family life. "In my family I was treated as a person," she writes. "It was never suggested that because I was a child I could not understand the world around me and respond to it responsibly and meaningfully." Affirmed and valued for herself during her childhood, Margaret Mead was able to be herself throughout her life. -- For great reviews of books for girls, check out Let's Hear It for the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. -- From 500 Great Books by Women; review by Lynne Auld
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- PublisherPocket
- Publication date1977
- ISBN 10 067181656X
- ISBN 13 9780671816568
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages337
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Softcover. Condition: Good. During her life Margaret Mead represented many things to the American public; sage, scientist, noncomformist, crusader for world peace &amp; archetypal grandmother. An enduring cultural icon, she came to symbolize a new kind of woman, one who successfully combined marriage &amp; motherhood with a career &amp; scholarship with a singular concern for its role in the lives of ordinary people. <br /><br />Even today, when memoirs of successful women scientists &amp; scholars remain scarce, Blackberry Winter, 1st published in '72, provides a rare glimpse of a pioneering woman's formative journey. In her chapters "On Being a Granddaughter" &amp; "The Pattern My Family Made Me," Mead examines the wisdom she gained from her maternal grandmother as well as the inheritance she recieved from her ancestors, &amp; how her upbringing fueled her desire for a fulfilling career that would reflect her own emerging values. We are treated to captivating portraits of bohemian life in NYC in the '20s; her early days at the American Museum of Natural History, where she met her longtime mentor, Franz Boas, &amp; friend, Ruth Benedict; &amp; 1st field trip to study adolescent girls in Samoa. Near the book's end, in "On Being a Grandmother," she reflects on the legacy she leaves her descendants, indeed, all of humanity. <br /><br />This autobiography, reissued for a new generation of readers, will appeal to any eager to discover a woman of our century who made her way in a world seldom hospitable to the dreams &amp; accomplishments of women. . Seller Inventory # SONG067181656X
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