Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe, The.
Mead, Margaret. The Changing Culture of An Indian Tribe. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932.
8vo.; red pebbled cloth, stamped in black; covers lightly used.
First edition. An advance copy, with the publisher’s card, “With the Compliments of Columbia University Press,” loosely inserted. The Changing of Culture is a lengthy and dense study in which Mead investigates daily life in modern aboriginal culture, with an emphasis on the multiple social roles played by female aborigines. Clark Wissler states in his foreword:
Dr. Mead...[undertakes] a more restricted examination of the tribal woman as she reacts in the present period of white contact. One reason for this restriction [is] that we know a great deal more about the Indian man than about the woman...A study of the contemporary Indian woman might still be worthwhile as a contribution to the study of women in general. (pp. viii-ix)
Mead devotes chapters to, among other subjects, “Notes on the Possibility of Studying the Mixed-Blood Situation”; “The Organization of the Household”; “The Degree to Which Woman Participates in the Culture”; and “Case Histories of Twenty-Five Delinquent Girls and Women.”
(#4742)Mead, Margaret. The Changing Culture of An Indian Tribe. New York: Columbia University Press, 1932.
8vo.; red pebbled cloth, stamped in black; covers lightly used.
First edition. An advance copy, with the publisher’s card, “With the Compliments of Columbia University Press,” loosely inserted. The Changing of Culture is a lengthy and dense study in which Mead investigates daily life in modern aboriginal culture, with an emphasis on the multiple social roles played by female aborigines. Clark Wissler states in his foreword:
Dr. Mead...[undertakes] a more restricted examination of the tribal woman as she reacts in the present period of white contact. One reason for this restriction [is] that we know a great deal more about the Indian man than about the woman...A study of the contemporary Indian woman might still be worthwhile as a contribution to the study of women in general. (pp. viii-ix)
Mead devotes chapters to, among other subjects, “Notes on the Possibility of Studying the Mixed-Blood Situation”; “The Organization of the Household”; “The Degree to Which Woman Participates in the Culture”; and “Case Histories of Twenty-Five Delinquent Girls and Women.”
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