New Lives for Old; Cultural Transformation - Manus, 1928-1953
New York: William Morrow and Company, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], vii-xxi, [3], 3-548, [6] pp. Black cloth with white lettering on the spine. Price of $6.75 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Illustrated by several black and white photographs. ADNB, Yans-McLaughlin, Virginia: "Mead, Margaret". Mead's story of her return to the Manus tribe of New Guinea, and how World War II changed the tribe's social and economic structures. Mead returned to this tribe after World War II to investigate how a tribe living in a Neolithic fashion would react to a rapidly changing world. She believed the Manus' reaction to rapid change could be a model for the rest of the world's societies. Known as "grandmother to the world" Mead was an important anthropologist who made great contributions to the study of sex and gender, and to the study of adolescent behavior among different cultures. Very Good / Very Good. Item #00008910
A Very Good book with minor foxing to the top textblock and a bit of toning to the fore-edge; dust jacket is Very Good with traces of rubbing and toning.
Price: $50.00