Margaret Mead Christmas card collection, 1962-1977Margaret Mead Christmas card C0216Published by George Mason University Libraries Contact Information:Fenwick Library (2FL) George Mason University Fairfax, Virginia 22030-4444 USA Phone: (703) 993-2220 Fax: (703) 993-8911 Email: speccoll@gmu.edu URL: http://scrc.gmu.edu
Historical InformationMargaret Mead was a prominent twentieth-century educator, writer, and lecturer. An anthropologist by occupation, she studied the lives of natives of Samoa, Indonesia, and Papua New Guinea. Her first book, "Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization" (New York: Morrow, 1928), which compared the seemingly care-free adolescent years in Samoan culture to this stressful period of development for American teenagers, catapulted her to instant fame. As she went on to research and write about other cultures, she used her anthropological studies as a framework to discuss and analyze American society. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentA collection of 11 Christmas cards from noted anthropologist Margaret Mead with five cards signed and with holiday greetings. The collection includes 10 original photographic prints, with one in color, and one printed card, many taken by friends and contributors to her work, such as visual anthropologist Paul Byers and cinematographer Richard Leiterman. Four of the card images include Mead's granddaughter, Sevanne "Vanni" Kassarjian, with one also showing her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson (herself a well-respected anthropologist). Three other Christmas cards picture Mead with natives of New Guinea and Bali, often surrounded by children, with one lone color image of her being filmed on Manus Island for the 1968 documentary, "Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal." Other cards show artwork, a choir, and various children. A charming collection of Christmas cards from one of the world's most renowned anthropologists. Return to the Table of Contents ArrangementOrganized by size. Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsThere are no access restrictions. Use RestrictionsThere are no use restrictions. Return to the Table of Contents Related MaterialSpecial Collections Research Center hold the George Mason University photograph collection that includes several photographs of Mary Catherine Bateson, Mead's daughter and a former professor of Anthropology at GMU. The Library of Congress holds the Margaret Mead papers. Return to the Table of Contents Index Terms
Persons:Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978--Photographs.
Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationMargaret Mead Christmas card collection, Collection #C0216, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries. Acquisition InformationPurchased in 2012. Processing InformationProcessed in August 2012 by Jordan Patty. EAD markup completed in August 2012 by Jordan Patty. Return to the Table of Contents Contents List
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