Some personal views

by Margaret Mead

This book is a collection of questions from all kinds of people on all kinds of subjects and spirited replies in many moods from Margaret Mead. Thoughtful replies and wry replies, funny ones and serious ones, a one-word reply and a 1,300-word reply. And all lengths in between.

Genres: Anthropology

286 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1979

About the author

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the '60s and '70s as a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and western life but also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.

Her reports as to the purportedly healthy attitude towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the '60s "sexual revolution" and it was only at the end of her life and career that her propositions were – albeit controversially – challenged by a maverick fellow anthropologist and literate members of societies she had long before studied and reported on. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life.

Excerpted from Wikipedia.