The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe (First Edition)

Mead, Margaret

Published by New York: Columbia University Press, 1932

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New York: Columbia University Press, 1932. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with all first issue points, including 1932 date in roman numerals on title page, correct jacket blurbs and price. Very Good+ in Very Good Dust Jacket.Tight binding; clean pages and covers; contemporary owner's name on front endpaper; slight smoke smell; only slight wear; dust jacket is clean with a few small tears and one tiny chip; price not clipped ($4.50). "DR. MARGARET MEAD'S study of present conditions in an Indian tribe living on a reservation, of which the anonymity is preserved under the title of "Antler", deals more particularly with the position of the women. It is, in a sense, an experimental study in that it has been undertaken with a view of elaborating and testing methods of observation which, it is pointed out, will in the near future have to be employed in an increasing degree in ethnographical observation, owing to the rapid changes which are taking place all over the world among backward peoples, as they come more and more closely into contact with civilisation, and their customs and native economy are modified thereby. In a preface, Dr. Clark Wissler points out, for example, that the Indians whom Dr. Mead has had under observation, are living under two incompatible ideals. On one hand they are trying to preserve their old tribal ideals of community, and on the other hand they are forced to conduct their life in accordance with the white concept of competition. Dr. Mead's book, which has some valuable detail bearing on moral conditions among a partially detribalised people and on the modification of conditions in marriage, is thus of both special and general interest to the student of ethnology."--Nature Magazine, 1933. Very scarce in dust jacket. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. . Seller Inventory # 17299

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Title: The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe (...

Publisher: New York: Columbia University Press

Publication Date: 1932

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

Edition: 1st Edition