New Lives for Old

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Margaret Mead

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Paperback / softback

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When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were a people living, quite literally, in the Stone Age. Then came World War II and the massive impact of the Air Age. A unique set of conditions made it possible for the Manus to construct a whole new world in 25 years. Mead chronicles these changes and advances a revolutionary theory of cultural change: that rapid change is better than slow change.

Author Biography:

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) began her remarkable career when she visited Samoa at the age of twenty-three, which led to her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa. She went on to become one of the most influential women of our time, publishing some forty works and serving as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History as well as president of major scientific associations. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom following her death in 1978.

Release date Australia

October 23rd, 2001

Author

Margaret Mead

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Edition

New edition

Illustrations

60 b&w photographs

Pages

588

Dimensions

130x205x37

ISBN-13

9780060958060

Product ID

1718405

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