New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation-Manus, 1928-53 by Margaret Mead

New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation-Manus, 1928-53

Margaret Mead

608 pages 1960

2 editions

nonfiction classics philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were living with a Stone Age technology. Economically vulnerable and burdened by a complex moral code, the Manus seemed ill-equipped to handle the massive impact that...

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