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Sex and Temperament: In Three Primitive Societies Paperback - 2001

by Margaret Mead


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A precursor to Mead's illuminating Male & Female, Sex & Temperament lays the groundwork for her lifelong study of gender differences.

First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood. Focusing on the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic Mundugumor, and the graceful headhunters of Tchambuli -- Mead advances the theory that many so-called masculine and feminine characteristics are not based on fundamental sex differences but reflect the cultural conditioning of different societies. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Helen Fisher and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.

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In the 1930s Margaret Mead ushered into American intellectual circles a powerful "way of seeing" as she called it, the cross-cultural perspective.

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First published in 1935, Sex & Temperament is a fascinating and brilliant anthropological study of the intimate lives of three New Guinea tribes from infancy to adulthood. Focusing on the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic Mundugumor, and the graceful headhunters of Tchambuli -- Mead advances the theory that many so-called masculine and feminine characteristics are not based on fundamental sex differences but reflect the cultural conditioning of different societies. This edition, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Helen Fisher and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.A precursor to Mead's illuminating Male & Female, Sex & Temperament lays the groundwork for her lifelong study of gender differences.

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  • Title Sex and Temperament: In Three Primitive Societies
  • Author Margaret Mead
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, NY
  • Date 2001-05-22
  • Features Index
  • ISBN 9780060934958 / 0060934956
  • Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.98 x 5.46 x 0.9 in (20.27 x 13.87 x 2.29 cm)
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.309

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  • Scitech Book News, 12/01/2001, Page 9
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