And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Cultures)

by Margaret Mead (Author), HerveVarenne (Introduction)

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  Hardcover
  2000

  $147.42

  Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States - the first since de Tocqueville - in 1942 at the beginnning 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.