New lives for old : cultural transformation - Manus, 1928-1953 /

When Margaret Mead first studied the Manus Islanders of New Guinea in 1928, they were living with a Stone Age technology. Economically vulnerable and burdened by a complex moral code, the Manus seemed ill-equipped to handle the massive impact that World War II had on their secluded world. But a uniq...

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Main Author: Mead, Margaret 1901-1978
Format: Libro
Language:English
Published: New York Perennial Edition 2001
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