Record details

• Physical Description: viii, 544 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
• Edition: [Enl. ed. with a new pref. and appraisal].
• Publisher: Boston : Beacon Press, c1961, 1966 printing.

Content descriptions

General Note:

On spine: Peter Smith.

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Margaret Mead -- The Arapesh of New Guines / Margaret Mead -- The Eskimo of Greenland / Jeannette Mirsky -- The Ojibwa of Canada / Ruth Landes -- The Bachiga of East Africa / May Mandelbaum Edel -- The Ifuago of the Philippine Islands -- The Kwakiutl of Vancouver Island / Irving Goldman -- The Manus of the Admiralty Islands / Margaret Mead -- The Iroquios / Buell Quain -- The Samoans / Margaret Mead -- The Zuni of New Mexico / Irving Goldman -- The Bathonga of South Africa -- The Dakota / Jeannette Mirsky -- The Maori of New Zealand / Bernard Mishkin -- Interpretive statement / Margaret Mead -- Appraisal 1961 / Margaret Mead -- Cooperation and competition in geometric-vectorial symbolism / Walter Zessner.

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Primitive societies.
Cooperation.
Competition.