Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture

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  • Mary Catherine Bateson. With a Daughter's Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
  • Hildred Geertz. Images of Power: Balinese Paintings Made for Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1994.
  • Deborah B. Gewertz. Sepik River Societies: A Historical Ethnography of the Chambri and Their Neighbors. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
  • Lowell D. Holmes, and Ellen Rhoads Holmes. Samoan Village: Then and Now. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich College Publishers, 1992.
  • Jane Howard. Margaret Mead: A Life. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1984.
  • Nancy McDowell. The Mundugumor: From the Field Notes of Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune. Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1991.
  • Margaret Mead. Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
  • Lola Ross-Romanucci. Mead's Other Manus: Phenomenology of the Encounter. South Hadley, Massachusetts: Bergin & Garvey, 1985.
  • Eric Kline Silverman. Masculinity, Motherhood, and Mockery: Psychoanalyzing Culture and the Iatmul Naven Rite in New Guinea. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2001.
  • Gerald Sullivan. Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Gedé, 1936–1939. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.

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