An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict
by Mead, Margaret
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
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Santa Monica, California, United States
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About This Item
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1959. First printing. Hardcover. vg. 8vo. xxii, 583pp. Gray cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original dust jacket. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine and corners. Some rubbing and chipping to dj. "This book is both the history of a new approach to anthropology and the biography of a brilliant, sensitive, and elusive woman. It is the posthumous product of a long collaboration between two distinguished anthropologists, Ruth Benedict, who died in 1948, and Margaret Mead, who was first her pupil, then her friend and colleague, and now her literary executor and biographer." Illustrated with a few reproductions of b/w photographs. Dj in good, book in very good condition.
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- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16205
- Title
- An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict
- Author
- Mead, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Company
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Famous anthropologists, female anthropologists, Biographies, Anne Singleton, Zuni Mythology
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Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
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Santa Monica, California
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- Spine
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- VG
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- Rubbing
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- Tail
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- Cloth
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- Chipping
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- Jacket
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