An Anthropologist at Work Book

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction xv

Part I

Search: 1920-1930 Margaret Mead 3

The Vision in Plains Culture 18

A Matter for the Field Worker in Folklore 36

Cups of Clay 38

Counters in the Game 40

The Uses of Cannibalism 44

Selections from the Correspondence of Edward Sapir with Ruth Benedict: 1922-1923 49

Two Diaries 55

Diary: 1923 56

Diary: 1926 72

Part II

Anne Singleton: 1889-1934 Margaret Mead 83

The Story of My Life ... 97

The Sense of Symbolism 113

Journals 118

Journal: 1912-1916 118

Journal Fragments: 1915-1934 135

Preface to an Anthology 156

Selections from the Correspondence of Edward Sapir with Ruth Benedict: 1923-1938 158

Part III

Patterns of Culture: 1922-1934 Margaret Mead 201

A Brief Sketch of Serrano Culture 213

They Dance for Rain in Zuñi 222

An Introduction to Zuñi Mythology 226

Dominant Cultural Attitudes in Manu'a Margaret Mead 246

Psychological Types in the Cultures of the Southwest 248

Anthropology and the Abnormal 262

Selections from Correspondence to and from the Field: 1924-1934 284

Part IV

The Years as Boas' Left Hand Margaret Mead 341

The Bond of Fellowship 356

Race Prejudice in the United States 358

Postwar Race Prejudice 361

The Natural History of War 369

Ideologies in the Light of Comparative Data 383

Primitive Freedom 386

Selections from the Correspondence between Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas: 1923-1940 399

Franz Boas: An Obituary 419

Part V

The Postwar Years: The Gathered Threads Margaret Mead 425

Recognition of Cultural Diversities in the Postwar World 439

Child Rearing in Certain European Countries 449

Anthropology and the Humanities 459

Part VI

Selected Poems: 1941 473

Mary Wollstonecraft 491

Chronology 523

Notes 527

Index of Personal Names 565

Index of Subjects 573