Margaret Mead. A Life by [MEAD Margaret] . HOWARD Jane - (1984)

New York: Simon & Schuster, (1984). First edition. boards, cloth spine. Fore-edge very slightly spotted, else fine/pictorial dust jacket. Octavo. Illustrated with photographs Her work in cultural anthropology called the world’s attention to the profession, although not without controversy. A teacher at Columbia University and a curator at the American Museum of Natural History, her half century of field trips to the south seas resulted in thirty-four books and ten films. Twenty-eight honorary degrees attested to Mead’s renown as the world’s leading anthropologist. With notes, selected bibliography and an index[DAB. Sweeney 833].