{"product_id":"2026200004695-secondhand-blackberry-winter-my-earlier-years","title":"Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good                          \u003cbr\u003eJacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage\u003cbr\u003ePages: Good                  \u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Minor rips to spine and tanning to interior of DJ. Pages clean and bright.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA landmark work of autobiographical writing, Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years chronicles the formative decades of one of the twentieth century's most influential anthropologists, tracing her journey from a curious, intellectually vibrant childhood through her groundbreaking fieldwork in Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali. Written with warmth, candor, and remarkable self-awareness, the memoir presents the personal and professional forces that shaped a pioneering scientific mind, including her relationships with mentors like Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas, her multiple marriages, and her evolving understanding of culture, gender, and human nature. The narrative illustrates how a young woman from a progressive American family transformed herself into a global figure whose ideas about child-rearing, sexuality, and cultural relativism permanently altered the social sciences. Reflective yet never self-congratulatory, the prose balances intimate personal revelation with broader meditations on what it means to live a life devoted to understanding humanity. Blackberry Winter stands as both a compelling personal story and an essential document of twentieth-century intellectual history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48792245666011,"sku":"2026200004695-SECONDHAND","price":20.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/a7822443-5584-4a14-83bf-9278cdc41363.png?v=1779273957","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200004695-secondhand-blackberry-winter-my-earlier-years","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}