To Cherish the Life of the World

The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

By: Margaret Caffrey, Patricia Francis

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Hardcover | 4 July 2006 | Edition Number 1

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Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. To Cherish the Life of the World presents, for the first time, her personal and professional correspondence, which spanned sixty years. These letters lend insights into Mead''s relationships with interconnected circles of family, friends, and colleagues, and reveal her thoughts on the nature of these relationships. In these letters -- drawn primarily from her papers at the Library of Congress -- Mead ruminates on family, friendships, sexuality, marriage, children, and career. In midlife, at a low point, she wrote to a friend, "What I seem to need most is close, aware human relationships, which somehow reinstate my sense of myself, as no longer living ''in the season of the narrow heart." This collection is structured around these relationships, which were so integral to Mead''s perspective on life. With a foreword by her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, a renowned author and anthropologist in her own right, this volume of letters from Mead to those who shared her life and work offers new insight into a rich and deeply complex mind.

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Non-Fiction Biographies & True Stories Biographies Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography Literature, Poetry & Plays Non-Fiction Prose Sociology Sociology & Family & Relationships Science Science in General

Brief Chronology of Margaret Mead's Life	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xvii
Introduction: The Logic of Human Relationships	p. xxi
Family: Bread and Butter and Applesauce	p. 1
Husbands: Starved for Likemindedness	p. 51
Lovers: Continuingly Meaningful	p. 131
Friends: A Genius for Friendship	p. 195
Colleagues: What Is Important Is the Work	p. 241
Growing Family: Kith and Kin	p. 327
Epilogue	p. 387
Notes	p. 391
Selected Works of Margaret Mead	p. 411
Index	p. 413
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To Cherish the Life of the World

The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

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