Margaret Mead: The Making of an American Icon

List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Mead as American Icon 1 Chapter 1. Mead as Modern Woman 25 Chapter 2. Images of the Mature Mead 58 Chapter 3. Mead as Anthropologist: "Sex in the South Seas" 83 Chapter 4. Mead as Anthropologist: "To Study Cannibals" 113 Chapter 5. Mead as Anthropologist: "To Find Out How Girls Learn to Be Girls" 133 Chapter 6. Mead and the Image of the Anthropologist 151 Chapter 7. Mead as Scientist 165 Chapter 8. Mead as Public Intellectual and Celebrity 205 Chapter 9. The Posthumous Mead, or Mead, the Public Anthropologist 238 Abbreviations of Archival Sources 265 Notes 267 Bibliography 331 Index 361