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A multicultural outlook scrutinizing Mead's impact on Western anthropology

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Author:   L Foerstel ,  Angela Gilliam
Publisher:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint:   Temple University Press,U.S.
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 25.00cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9781566392617

ISBN 10:   1566392616
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   28 July 1994
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Stock Indefinitely
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Foreword - Peter Worsley Preface - Angela Gilliam and Lenora Foerstel Acknowledgments Part I: The Margaret Mead Legacy 1. Anthropologists in Search of a Culture: Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman, and All the Rest of Us - Eleanor Leacock 2. Leaving a Record for Others: An Interview with Nahau Rooney - Angela Gilliam 3. Margaret Mead from a Cultural-Historical Perspective - Lenora Foerstel 4. The Stigma of New Guinea: Reflections on Anthropology and Anthropologists - Warilea Iamo 5. Margaret Mead's Contradictory Legacy - Angela Gilliam and Lenora Foerstel Part II: Empire and Independence 6. For an Independent Kanaky - Susanna Ounei 7. The United States Anthropologist in Micronesia: Toward a Counter-Hegemonic Study of Sapiens - Glenn Alcalay 8. Anthropology and Authoritarianism in the Pacific Islands - Simione Durutalo 9. Tugata: Culture, Identity, and Commitment - John D. Waiko 10. Papua New Guinea and the Geopolitics of Knowledge Production - Angela Gilliam

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...valuable information, ideas, and contrasts. --Choice This book is a remarkable portrait of a scholar and a field, both fierce and fair. The conjecture of perspectives--ethnography and empire, personal history and public practice, voices from the Pacific as well as the United States--makes a document important for assessing anthropology, both past and future. --Dell Hymes, University of Virginia, and editor of Reinventing Anthropology Mead's attitude toward and activities in relation to her country's foreign and military policies are under scrutiny here, and so is her relationship with the subjects of her research. Such critical assessment of leading scholars is crucial to improvement of academic research and scholastic work and building trust, confidence, and good relations among poe0ples of the world. --Amelia Rokotuivuna, Young Women's Christian Association, Fiji, and former Chair of the Nuclear-Free Pacific Conference

...valuable information, ideas, and contrasts. --Choice This book is a remarkable portrait of a scholar and a field, both fierce and fair. The conjecture of perspectives--ethnography and empire, personal history and public practice, voices from the Pacific as well as the United States--makes a document important for assessing anthropology, both past and future. --Dell Hymes, University of Virginia, and editor of Reinventing Anthropology Mead's attitude toward and activities in relation to her country's foreign and military policies are under scrutiny here, and so is her relationship with the subjects of her research. Such critical assessment of leading scholars is crucial to improvement of academic research and scholastic work and building trust, confidence, and good relations among poe0ples of the world. --Amelia Rokotuivuna, Young Women's Christian Association, Fiji, and former Chair of the Nuclear-Free Pacific Conference

Author Information

Lenora Foerstel is an instructor in Ethnohistory at the Maryland College of Art. She was a member of the 1953 American Museum of Natural History Expedition to Manus Island, led by Dr. Margaret Mead.

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