This edition of New Lives for Old, prepared for the centennial of Mead's birth, features introductions by Stewart Brand and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were...
""New Lives For Old: Cultural Transformation Manus, 1928-1953"" by Margaret Mead is a comprehensive exploration of the cultural transformation that occurred in Manus, an island in the Pacific, between 1928 and 1953. Mead, an American cultural anthropologist, spent several years...