And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America

by Margaret Mead

Book Overview

Margaret Mead wrote this comprehensive sketch of the culture of the United States - the first since de Tocqueville - in 1942 at the beginnning of the Second World War, when Americans were confronted by foreign powers from both Europe and Asia in a particularly challenging manner. Mead's work became an instant classic. It was required reading for anthropology students for nearly two decades, and was widely translated. It was revised and expanded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571812180
• ISBN13: 9781571812186
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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More about this book (from the back cover):

A new, enlarged edition of Margaret Mead's classic study of the American character containing a long chapter which views the United States in the second half of the 1960's. Mead's book remains one of the most illuminating discussions of the American character we have. ___________________ An Apollo trade paperback; 1965. 340 pages.

The Classic Work on American Culture

Anyone interested in American Culture needs to read Margaret Mead's classic work. Reading through this book is like getting to know your relatives again. I just kept nodding and saying, "Wow! She got it so right!" In this year when the elections are bringing American values into focus, it is time to realize that Margaret Mead and De Tocqueville had it right a long time ago. And speaking of De Tocqueville, someone had a nice idea asking Frenchman Herve Varenne to write the clever introduction.