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Blackberry Winter - My Earlier Years

by Margaret Mead
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Authentic anthropological introspection on writer's formative years.

Recommended for fans of anthropology & autobiographies. Mead's vivid writing takes readers on a journey through her early life, shaping her unique worldview and career as a cultural anthropologist.

  • National Book Award Finalist for Biography (1973)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.
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Blackberry Winter - My Earlier Years

by Margaret Mead
$5.90 Now $3.90 Save 34% more
ISBN: 9780671826369
Authors: Margaret Mead
Publisher: Pocket
Date of Publication: 1978-10-03
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Science, Personal Development, Biographies & Memoirs, Travel
Related Topics: Inspirational, Autobiography, Biography Memoir, Biography, Personal Development, Memoir
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During her life Margaret Mead represented many things to the American public; sage, scientist, noncomformist, crusader for world peace & archetypal grandmother. An enduring cultural icon, she came to symbolize a new kind of woman, one who successfully combined marriage & motherhood with a career & scholarship with a singular concern for its role in the lives of ordinary people. Even today, when memoirs of successful women scientists & scholars remain scarce, Blackberry Winter , 1st published in '72, provides a rare glimpse of a pioneering woman's formative journey. In her chapters "On Being a Granddaughter" & "The Pattern My Family Made Me," Mead examines the wisdom she gained from her maternal grandmother as well as the inheritance she recieved from her ancestors, & how her upbringing fueled her desire for a fulfilling career that would reflect her own emerging values. We are treated to captivating portraits of bohemian life in NYC in the '20s; her early days at the American Museum of Natural History, where she met her longtime mentor, Franz Boas, & friend, Ruth Benedict; & 1st field trip to study adolescent girls in Samoa. Near the book's end, in "On Being a Grandmother," she reflects on the legacy she leaves her descendants, indeed, all of humanity. This autobiography, reissued for a new generation of readers, will appeal to any eager to discover a woman of our century who made her way in a world seldom hospitable to the dreams & accomplishments of women.
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Authentic anthropological introspection on writer's formative years.

Recommended for fans of anthropology & autobiographies. Mead's vivid writing takes readers on a journey through her early life, shaping her unique worldview and career as a cultural anthropologist.

  • National Book Award Finalist for Biography (1973)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.