On creating a usable culture [electronic resource] : Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism / Maureen A. Molloy.
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TextPublication details: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2008.Description: x, 200 p. : illSubject(s): - Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978 -- Criticism and interpretation
- Anthropology -- United States -- Popular works
- Anthropology in popular culture -- United States
- Anthropology in literature
- Cosmopolitanism -- United States
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States
- United States -- Social life and customs
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- E184.A1 M63 2008
Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-192) and index.
The problem of American culture -- The "jungle flapper" : civilization, repression, and the homogenous society -- "Lords of an empty creation" : masculinity, puritanism, and cultural stagnation -- "Every woman deviating from the code" : cultural lag, moral contagion, and social disintegration -- "Maladjustment of a worse order" : temperament, psychosexual misidentification, and the refuge of private life -- On creating a usable culture.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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