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Margaret Mead The Making of an American Icon MeadcartoonbyEdFisher,SaturdayReviewmagazine,June7,1958. Margaret Mead The Making of an American Icon NANCY C. LUTKEHAUS PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS PRINCETON AND OXFORD Copyright©2008byPrincetonUniversityPress PublishedbyPrincetonUniversityPress,41WilliamStreet, Princeton,NewJersey08540 IntheUnitedKingdom:PrincetonUniversityPress,6OxfordStreet, Woodstock,OxfordshireOX201TW AllRightsReserved Lutkehaus,NancyC. ISBN-13:978-0-691-00941-4 BritishLibraryCataloging-in-PublicationDataisavailable ThisbookhasbeencomposedinSabontextwithCaxtonBookdisplay Printedonacid-freepaper.∞ press.princeton.edu PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 To Jim and James With thanks for their patience and their love C O N T E N T S ListofIllustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xiii Introduction:MeadasAmericanIcon 1 Chapter1.MeadasModernWoman 25 Chapter2.ImagesoftheMatureMead 58 Chapter3.MeadasAnthropologist:“SexintheSouthSeas” 83 Chapter4.MeadasAnthropologist:“ToStudyCannibals” 113 Chapter5.MeadasAnthropologist: “ToFindOutHowGirlsLearntoBeGirls” 133 Chapter6.MeadandtheImageoftheAnthropologist 151 Chapter7.MeadasScientist 165 Chapter8.MeadasPublicIntellectualandCelebrity 205 Chapter9.ThePosthumousMead,orMead, thePublicAnthropologist 238 AbbreviationsofArchivalSources 265 Notes 267 Bibliography 331 Index 361 I L L U S T R A T I O N S Frontispiece Meadcartoon,SaturdayReview ii Inro.1 Doonesburycartoon,1973 3 Inro.2 WallStreetJournalad,2001 9 Inro.3 MeadinBali,1957 10 Inro.4 Meadinoffice,AmericanMuseumof NaturalHistory 20 Figure1.1 Meadaschildwithhermother,1905 31 Figure1.2 MeadandKatherineRothenberger, MayDayPageant,1920 34 Figure1.3 MeadandtwootherAshCanCats 37 Figure1.4 RuthBenedict 42 Figure1.5 EdwardSapir 43 Figure1.6 Musa-shiyatheShirtmakerad,1925 47 Figure1.7 “FearFeltforPhiladelphiaGirl,”1926 49 Figure1.8 “HasStudiedtheFlapperintheSouthSeas,”1927 52 Figure1.9 “MargaretMead,Anthropologist,”32-centstamp 53 Figure2.1 MeadandLutherCressman,1918 59 Figure2.2 MeadwithReoFortune 60 Figure2.3 MeadwithGregoryBateson 61 Figure2.4 “BabyPictures”:MaryCatherineBateson,1940 65 Figure2.5 Meadwithmicrophone 66 Figure2.6 MeadandBateson,wartime 67 Figure2.7 MeadwithgranddaughterVanni,1969 74 Figure3.1 AdforComingofAgeinSamoa,1928 88 Figure3.2 DustjacketofComingofAgeinSamoa,1928 89 Figure3.3 “APrincessoftheSouthSeas,”1931 100 Figure3.4 Esquirecartoon,“ICameofAgeinSamoa” 102 Figure3.5 DavidLevinecaricature,“MargaretMead” 104 Figure3.6 MeadwithFa’amotu,Samoa,1925 105
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