Male And Female
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
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At the crossroads of biology, culture, and human identity, Margaret Mead's Male and Female presents a groundbreaking examination of the ways in which societies around the world construct the roles, behaviours, and expectations assigned to men and women. Drawing on her celebrated fieldwork across seven Pacific cultures — including Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali — Mead chronicles the extraordinary diversity of gender arrangements in human societies, arguing with compelling force that much of what Western culture assumes to be natural is, in fact, a product of social conditioning and cultural design. Her observations are precise, her methodology rigorous, and her conclusions quietly revolutionary. Published originally in 1949, Male and Female stands as one of the most significant works in twentieth-century anthropology, challenging readers to question the assumptions embedded in their own cultural fabric. Mead writes with the rare gift of translating complex ethnographic data into vivid, accessible prose that illuminates universal human truths — and forces a reckoning with the constructed nature of gender long before such conversations entered mainstream discourse. For anyone seeking to understand how societies shape the most intimate aspects of human identity, this work remains as urgent and unsettling today as when it was first written.
Author: Margaret Mead
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the crossroads of biology, culture, and human identity, Margaret Mead's Male and Female presents a groundbreaking examination of the ways in which societies around the world construct the roles, behaviours, and expectations assigned to men and women. Drawing on her celebrated fieldwork across seven Pacific cultures — including Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali — Mead chronicles the extraordinary diversity of gender arrangements in human societies, arguing with compelling force that much of what Western culture assumes to be natural is, in fact, a product of social conditioning and cultural design. Her observations are precise, her methodology rigorous, and her conclusions quietly revolutionary. Published originally in 1949, Male and Female stands as one of the most significant works in twentieth-century anthropology, challenging readers to question the assumptions embedded in their own cultural fabric. Mead writes with the rare gift of translating complex ethnographic data into vivid, accessible prose that illuminates universal human truths — and forces a reckoning with the constructed nature of gender long before such conversations entered mainstream discourse. For anyone seeking to understand how societies shape the most intimate aspects of human identity, this work remains as urgent and unsettling today as when it was first written.