Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon

347 Pages·2008·3.12 MB·english

by  Nancy C. Lutkehaus

Margaret Mead
The Making of an
American Icon
MeadcartoonbyEdFisher,SaturdayReviewmagazine,June7,1958.
Margaret Mead
The Making of an
American Icon
NANCY C. LUTKEHAUS
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
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C O N T E N T S
ListofIllustrations ix
Preface xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction:MeadasAmericanIcon 1
Chapter1.MeadasModernWoman 25
Chapter2.ImagesoftheMatureMead 58
Chapter3.MeadasAnthropologist:“SexintheSouthSeas” 83
Chapter4.MeadasAnthropologist:“ToStudyCannibals” 113
Chapter5.MeadasAnthropologist:
“ToFindOutHowGirlsLearntoBeGirls” 133
Chapter6.MeadandtheImageoftheAnthropologist 151
Chapter7.MeadasScientist 165
Chapter8.MeadasPublicIntellectualandCelebrity 205
Chapter9.ThePosthumousMead,orMead,
thePublicAnthropologist 238
AbbreviationsofArchivalSources 265
Notes 267
Bibliography 331
Index 361

I L L U S T R A T I O N S
Frontispiece Meadcartoon,SaturdayReview ii
Inro.1 Doonesburycartoon,1973 3
Inro.2 WallStreetJournalad,2001 9
Inro.3 MeadinBali,1957 10
Inro.4 Meadinoffice,AmericanMuseumof
NaturalHistory 20
Figure1.1 Meadaschildwithhermother,1905 31
Figure1.2 MeadandKatherineRothenberger,
MayDayPageant,1920 34
Figure1.3 MeadandtwootherAshCanCats 37
Figure1.4 RuthBenedict 42
Figure1.5 EdwardSapir 43
Figure1.6 Musa-shiyatheShirtmakerad,1925 47
Figure1.7 “FearFeltforPhiladelphiaGirl,”1926 49
Figure1.8 “HasStudiedtheFlapperintheSouthSeas,”1927 52
Figure1.9 “MargaretMead,Anthropologist,”32-centstamp 53
Figure2.1 MeadandLutherCressman,1918 59
Figure2.2 MeadwithReoFortune 60
Figure2.3 MeadwithGregoryBateson 61
Figure2.4 “BabyPictures”:MaryCatherineBateson,1940 65
Figure2.5 Meadwithmicrophone 66
Figure2.6 MeadandBateson,wartime 67
Figure2.7 MeadwithgranddaughterVanni,1969 74
Figure3.1 AdforComingofAgeinSamoa,1928 88
Figure3.2 DustjacketofComingofAgeinSamoa,1928 89
Figure3.3 “APrincessoftheSouthSeas,”1931 100
Figure3.4 Esquirecartoon,“ICameofAgeinSamoa” 102
Figure3.5 DavidLevinecaricature,“MargaretMead” 104
Figure3.6 MeadwithFa’amotu,Samoa,1925 105