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Themes in French Culture: A Preface to a Study of French Community

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Themes in French Culture

A Preface to a Study of French Community

Margaret Mead with Rhoda Métraux
Introduction by Kathryn Anderson-Levitt

152 pages, bibliog.

ISBN  978-1-57181-813-3 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (October 2001)

ISBN  978-1-57181-814-0 $29.95/£23.95 / Pb / Published (October 2001)

eISBN 978-1-80073-505-7 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781571818133


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Margaret Mead collaborated with her long-time colleague Rhoda Métraux in this unique study of French culture. The Hoover Institute at Stanford University originally published this volume, which grew out of the Columbia University project on Research of Contemporary Cultures in 1954. It is one of the few works by American social scientists dealing with broad themes of French life.

Mead and Métraux present a vivid picture of the French starting with the organization of the house and its architecture, and drawing original conclusions for the structure of French families and overall cultural values. This work, long out of print, is a fascinating and penetrating portrait of a contemporary European society.

Margaret Mead served as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1925 to 1969. She began her career with a study of youth and adolescence in Samoan society, published as Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). She published prolifically, becoming a seminal figure in anthropology, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979.

Subject: Theory and MethodologyCultural Studies (General)
Area: France


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