The autobiography of a pioneer, this is Margaret Mead's story of her life as a woman and as an anthropologist. An enduring cultural icon, she came to represent the new woman, successfully combining motherhood with career, and scholarship with concern for its role in the lives of ordinary people. 62 photos. During her life Margaret Mead represented many things to the American public; sage, scientist, noncomformist, crusader for world peace & archetypal grandmother. An enduring cultural icon, she came to symbolize a new kind of woman, one who successfully combined marriage & motherhood with a career & scholarship with a singular concern for its role in the lives of ordinary people. Even today, when memoirs of successful women scientists & scholars remain scarce, Blackberry Winter, 1st published in '72, provides a rare glimpse of a pioneering woman's formative journey. In her chapters "On Being a Granddaughter" & "The Pattern My Family Made Me," Mead examines the wisdom she gained from her maternal grandmother as well as the inheritance she recieved from her ancestors, & how her upbringing fueled her desire for a fulfilling career that would reflect her own emerging values. We are treated to captivating portraits of bohemian life in NYC in the '20s; her early days at the American Museum of Natural History, where she met her longtime mentor, Franz Boas, & friend, Ruth Benedict; & 1st field trip to study adolescent girls in Samoa. Near the book's end, in "On Being a Grandmother," she reflects on the legacy she leaves her descendants, indeed, all of humanity. This autobiography, reissued for a new generation of readers, will appeal to any eager to discover a woman of our century who made her way in a world seldom hospitable to the dreams & accomplishments of women.

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Blackberry Winter:My Earlier Years🍒🍒🍒🍒
By Margaret Mead
1972

Cultural icon, non-conformist, scientist....this shares her lifelong commitment to anthropology and humanity. In her time, she was able to accomplish so much with perspective and remarkably gutsy drive.
This is a remarkable book of her childhood, husbands, children as well. Self promoting, but remarkable.
Recommended. ( )

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> Thoma Janine. Margaret Mead, Du givre sur les ronces, Seuil.
In: Les Cahiers du GRIF, n°17-18, 1977. Mères femmes. p. 107. … ; (en ligne),
URL : https://www.persee.fr/doc/grif_0770-6081_1977_num_17_1_1208_t1_0107_0000_4

"when all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze;
...
and then my heart with pleasure fills
And dances with the daffodils." page 23 ( )