CULTURE AND COMMITMENT : A Study of the Generation Gap (American Museum of Natural History Special Members' Edition)
by Mead, Margaret
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Garden City, NY: Natural History Press/Doubleday, 1970. First Edition, First Thus . Hardcover. COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE/Very Good. Text/BRAND NEW. Gilt embossed black linen boards/Fine. DJ/VG; strong & sound w/light edge wear, liquid based soiling to lower spine, and showing discoloration. March, 1969 "Man and Nature" lectures delivered by Margaret Mead (1909 - 1978) at the American Museum of Natural History; months before Mead became Curator Emeritus of Ethnology at the museum. Contents, identifying emergence of generation gaps, in the minds of both young and old, cautions breakdown in communication will persist "as long as any adult thinks that he can ... invoke his own youth to understand the youth before him, " in 3 parts: Part I, The Past; II, The Present; and, III, The Future. Fine copy in less than desirable dust jacket.
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- Title
- CULTURE AND COMMITMENT : A Study of the Generation Gap (American Museum of Natural History Special Members' Edition)
- Author
- Mead, Margaret
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - COLLECTIBLE - NEAR FINE
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Thus
- Publisher
- Natural History Press/Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, NY
- Date Published
- 1970
- Keywords
- American Museum of Natural History/Man and Nature Lectures/Sociology/Anthropology
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- Anthropology/Ethnology;
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