And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America
A Anthropology, Nonfiction book. Mead wrote this book as a government assignment, so it should probably be read in conjunction with...
With an Introduction by Hervé Varenne, Columbia University. Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States - the first since de Tocqueville - in 1942 at the beginning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers from both Europe and Asia in a particularly challenging manner. Mead's work became an instant classic. It was required reading for anthropology students for nearly two decades, and was widely translated. It was revised and expanded in 1965 for a second generation of readers. Among the more controversial conclusions of her analysis are the denial of class as a motivating force in American culture, and her contention that culture is the primary determinant for individual character formation. Her process remains lucid, vivid, and arresting. As a classic study of a complex western society, it remains a monument to anthropological analysis.
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Mead wrote this book as a government assignment, so it should probably be read in conjunction with the companion piece: Ruth Benedict's The Crhysanthemum And The Sword, about Japanese culture in the 1940s--but I didn't--still haven't read Benedict's book.This book is full of fascinating insights, like the culture of unassisted novice... very dated, but somewhat interesting Fascinating read, particularly as a non-American.I now want to sit all my American friends down and ask them impertinent questions about their childhood.
