Mead, Margaret

New Lives for Old Cultural Transformation -- Manus, 1928-1953

Hardcover, New York: William Morrow and Company, 1956. Very Good+. The study of the Manus, the first time in history an anthropologist had the opportunity to study a people that made a twenty-five year jump in time. Mead returns and finds it threatened by a volcanic eruption and describes the changes that have taken place in the culture and the implications for the future. Ships same or next business day. Edges are tanned but pages are clean and bright. Normal edge wear, front corners are slightly bumped, endpapers have aging. Book is in very good plus condition. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 548 pages. [Item #42968]

Price: $30.00