Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Gede, 1936-1939

by Gerald Sullivan

In 1936 anthropologist Margaret Mead and her husband, Gregory Bateson, retreated from lowland Bali, which was the focal point of much scholarly and tourist activity, to the remote village of Bayung Ged in the island's central highlands. Although they wrote relatively little about their work in this place, which Mead called "our village, way up in the mountains, a lovely self-contained village," they did leave behind a remarkably rich and extensive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226384349
• ISBN13: 9780226384344
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 2.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 8.7" x 9.7"