عنوان

On creating a usable culture :

شابک

0824863771

شابک

1435666518

شابک

9780824863777

شابک

9781435666511

شابک اشتباه

0824831160

شابک اشتباه

9780824831165

شماره

b711705

عنوان اصلي

On creating a usable culture :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Maureen A. Molloy.

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Honolulu :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

University of Hawaii Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

©2008.

نام خاص و کميت اثر

1 online resource (x, 200 pages) :

ساير جزييات

illustrations

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-192) and index.

متن يادداشت

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.

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

Margaret Mead's career took off in 1928 with the publication of Coming of Age in Samoa. Within ten years, she was the best-known academic in the United States, a role she enjoyed all of her life. In On Creating a Usable Culture, Maureen Molloy explores how Mead was influenced by, and influenced, the meanings of American culture and secured for herself a unique and enduring place in the American popular imagination. She considers this in relation to Mead's four popular ethnographies written between the wars (Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea, The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe, and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies) and the academic, middle-brow, and popular responses to them. Molloy argues that Mead was heavily influenced by the debates concerning the forging of a distinctive American culture that began around 1911 with the publication of George Santayana's "The Genteel Tradition." The creation of a national culture would solve the problems of alienation and provincialism and establish a place for both native-born and immigrant communities. Mead drew on this vision of an "integrated culture" and used her "primitive societies" as exemplars of how cultures attained or failed to attain this ideal. Her ethnographies are really about "America," the peoples she studied serving as the personifications of what were widely understood to be the dilemmas of American selfhood in a materialistic, individualistic society. Two themes subtend Molloy's analysis. The first is Mead's articulation of the individual's relation to his or her culture via the trope of sex. Each of her early ethnographies focuses on a "character" and his or her problems as expressed through sexuality. This thematic ties her work closely to the popularization of psychoanalysis at the time with its understanding of sex as the key to the self. The second theme involves the change in Mead's attitude toward and definition of "culture"--The cultural determinism in Coming of Age to culture as the enemy of the individual in Sex and Temperament. This trend parallels the consolidation and objectification of popular and professional notions about culture in the 1920s and 1930s. On Creating a Usable Culture will be eagerly welcomed by those with an interest in American studies and history, cultural studies, and the social sciences, and most especially by readers of American intellectual history, the history of anthropology, gender studies, and studies of modernism.

منبع سفارش / آدرس اشتراک

JSTOR

شماره انبار

22573/ctt62t6qh

عنوان

On creating a usable culture.

شماره استاندارد بين المللي کتاب و موسيقي

0824831160

موضوع مستند نشده

Mead, Margaret,1901-1978-- Criticism and interpretation.

موضوع مستند نشده

Mead, Margaret,1901-1978.

موضوع مستند نشده

Anthropology in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Anthropology in popular culture-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Anthropology-- United States, Popular works.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cosmopolitanism-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

World War, 1939-1945-- Social aspects-- United States.

موضوع مستند نشده

Anthropology in literature.

موضوع مستند نشده

Anthropology in popular culture.

موضوع مستند نشده

Anthropology.

موضوع مستند نشده

Cosmopolitanism.

موضوع مستند نشده

HISTORY-- Military-- World War II.

موضوع مستند نشده

HISTORY-- State & Local-- General.

موضوع مستند نشده

Manners and customs.

موضوع مستند نشده

Social aspects.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States, Social life and customs.

موضوع مستند نشده

United States.

بدون عنوان

0

بدون عنوان

7

موضوع مستند نشده

BIO015000

موضوع مستند نشده

HIS-- 036010

موضوع مستند نشده

HIS027100

شماره

ويراست

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Molloy, Maureen,1949-

تاريخ عمليات

20201208022023.0

قواعد فهرست نويسي ( بخش توصيفي )

pn

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y