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To Cherish the Life of the World

The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead

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By Margaret Caffrey

By Patricia Francis

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On Sale
Apr 29, 2009
Page Count
304 pages
Publisher
Basic Books
ISBN-13
9780786736027

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$21.99

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$28.99 CAD

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Often far from home and loved ones, famed anthropologist Margaret Mead was a prolific letterwriter, always honing her writing skills and her ideas. To Cherish the Life of the World presents, for the first time, her personal and professional correspondence, which spanned sixty years. These letters lend insights into Mead’s relationships with interconnected circles of family, friends, and colleagues, and reveal her thoughts on the nature of these relationships. In these letters — drawn primarily from her papers at the Library of Congress — Mead ruminates on family, friendships, sexuality, marriage, children, and career. In midlife, at a low point, she wrote to a friend, “What I seem to need most is close, aware human relationships, which somehow reinstate my sense of myself, as no longer living ‘in the season of the narrow heart.” This collection is structured around these relationships, which were so integral to Mead’s perspective on life. With a foreword by her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, a renowned author and anthropologist in her own right, this volume of letters from Mead to those who shared her life and work offers new insight into a rich and deeply complex mind.

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Margaret Caffrey

About the Author

Margaret Caffrey is an associate professor of history at the University of Memphis and the author of a book about Margaret Mead’s mentor, colleague, and lover, entitled Ruth Benedict: Stranger in This Land. She lives in Memphis, Tennessee.

Patricia Francis was curator of “Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture,” an exhibition at the Library of Congress, in 2002. She lives in Washington, D.C.

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Patricia Francis

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