Letters from the Field, 1925-1975

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) began her remarkable career when she visited Samoa at the age of twenty-three. She went on to become one of the most influential women of our time, publishing some forty works and serving as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History as well as president of major scientific associations. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom following her death in 1978Mead, Margaret is the author of 'Letters from the Field, 1925-1975', published 2001 under ISBN 9780060958046 and ISBN 0060958049.