Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon
January 26, 2009 12:11 PM
by Nancy C. Lutkehaus
Princeton University Press, $29.95
Nancy C. Lutkehaus, professor of anthropology, gender studies and political science at USC College, explores the life and ideas of Margaret Mead, the best-known anthropologist and female public intellectual in 20th-century America. Using photographs, films, television appearances and print media coverage, Lutkehaus explores the ways in which Meade became an American cultural heroine who represented new ideas about women, non-Western peoples, culture and America’s role in the 20th century - all of which transformed society and changed her into a celebrity and cultural icon.
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