Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict (The kinship of women)
Editorial EDICIONES CATEDRA, S.A.
España peninsular
- Editorial EDICIONES CATEDRA, S.A.
- ISBN13 9781558491816
- ISBN10 1558491813
- Tipo LIBRO
- Páginas 351
- Año de Edición 1999
- Encuadernación Tela
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Antropologia.temas GeneralesMargaret Mead and Ruth Benedict (The kinship of women)
Editorial EDICIONES CATEDRA, S.A.
España peninsular
Detalles del libro
This book tells the story of the extraordinary friendship between renowned anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. First as mentor and protegee, later as colleagues and lovers, these two remarkable yet temperamentally different women forged a bond that endured for twenty-five years, defying convention as well as easy categorization.. "Drawing on a broad range of sources, including recently released correspondence between Mead and Benedict, Hilary Lapsley reconstructs this complex relationship and situates it in the context of its time. She explores the ways in which Mead's and Benedict's professional work grew out of concerns in their own lives - about sexuality and friendship, identity and difference. Lapsley also shows how Mead and Benedict used their anthropological studies to call attention to the cultural foundations of American life, Benedict seeking to make the world more tolerant of deviance and Mead to liberate the individual from the artificial constraints of gender and race.