Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire, and the South Pacific by Lenora Foerstel, Angela Gilliam

Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire, and the South Pacific by Lenora Foerstel, Angela Gilliam

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ISBN: 9781566392617

Temple University Press, 28 July 1994

Paperback, 298 pages

The legendary Margaret Mead changed Americans' views of themselves by relating information collected from remote peoples to our society. This work presents a multicultural outlook on Margaret Mead, scrutinizing her role and impact on Western anthropology, colonialism, and strategic and business interests in the South Pacific.