And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America / Edition 1

by Margaret Mead

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781571812186
Publisher:	Berghahn Books, Incorporated
Publication date:	07/01/2000
Series:	Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Culture , #2
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

America According to Margaret Mead
Hervé Varenne

Preface - 1965
Preface from England - 1943

Introduction - 1965

Chapter 1. Introduction - 1942
Chapter 2. Clearing the Air
Chapter 3. We Are All Third Generation
Chapter 4. The Class Handicap
Chapter 5. The European in Our Midst
Chapter 6. Parents, Children and Achievement
Chapter 7. Brothers and Sisters and Success
Chapter 8. Are Today’s Youth Different?
Chapter 9. The Chip on the Shoulder
Chapter 10. Fighting the War American Style
Chapter 11. Are Democracy and Social Science Compatible Each with Each?
Chapter 12. If We Are to Go On
Chapter 13. Building the World New
Chapter 14. These Things We Can Do
Chapter 15. The Years Between: 1943–1965

Bibliographical Note - 1942
Bibliograpghy - 1942

Bibliographical Note - 1965
Bibliography - 1965