Return from the natives : how Margaret Mead won the Second World War and lost the Cold War / Peter Mandler.

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Mandler, Peter [author.]

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text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0300189702
9780300189704
9781299284067
129928406X

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306 23

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GN21.M36 M36 2013

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Return from the Natives -- 1 From the South Seas (to 1939) -- 2 Culture Cracking for War: I. Allies (1939-44) -- 3 Among the Natives of Great Britain (1942-5) -- 4 Culture Cracking for War: II. Enemies (1942-5) -- 5 Culture Cracking for Peace (1945-50) -- 6 Swaddling the Russians (1947-51) -- 7 Return to the Natives (1947-53) -- Epilogue: To Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgements -- Index

Summary: Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and 30s, was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could help sum up the national character of the most complex, modern societies and produce better wartime strategies. This book follows her and her closest collaborators to their triumphant climax when Mead was chosen to be one of the principal cultural ambassadors from America to Britain in 1943.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Celebrated anthropologist Margaret Mead, who studied sex in Samoa and child-rearing in New Guinea in the 1920s and 30s, was determined as the Second World War approached to show that anthropology could help sum up the national character of the most complex, modern societies and produce better wartime strategies. This book follows her and her closest collaborators to their triumphant climax when Mead was chosen to be one of the principal cultural ambassadors from America to Britain in 1943.