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On creating a usable culture Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism /

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Main Author: Molloy, Maureen, 1949-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Mead, Margaret, > 1901-1978 > Criticism and interpretation.
Anthropology > United States > Popular works.
Anthropology in popular culture > United States.
Anthropology in literature.
Cosmopolitanism > United States.
World War, 1939-1945 > Social aspects > United States.
United States > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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