Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture

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Shaping Forces

Emily Fogg Mead. "Characteristics at 6 Years," ca. January 1908. Diary. Manuscript Division (5)

Margaret Mead. Diary, begun July 11, 1911. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (9)

Margaret Mead and Luther Sheeleigh Cressman, ca. 1917-18. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (14a)

Margaret Mead. Self-portrait completed around the age of thirteen, ca. 1914-15. Pastel on paper. Manuscript Division (18)

Margaret and Richard Mead on the beach, Nantucket, Massachusetts, summer 1911. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (20)

Martha Ramsay Mead. Notes on Margaret Mead's early childhood learning, "Margaret," possibly ca. 1905. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (21)

Margaret Mead. Diary record of her sister Elizabeth's language development, probably ca. 1911-1912. Diary. Manuscript Division (22)

Margaret Mead as an infant, 1902. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (31)

Ruth Benedict at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire, probably ca. 1920s. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (34a)

Franz Boas in Ruth Benedict's living room, undated. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (36)

Margaret Mead. Letter to Martha Ramsey Mead, March 11, 1923. Typescript. Manuscript Division (38)

Margaret Mead. Anthropology seminar notes, March 19, 1924. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (39)

Margaret Mead. "Traveler's Faith," in Song of Five Springs. Hand-bound volume, probably compiled for Ruth Benedict, ca. 1927. Manuscript Division (44)

Margaret Mead. An Inquiry into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia. New York: Columbia University Press, 1928. Manuscript Division (46)

To the Field and Back

Margaret Mead standing between two Samoan girls, ca. 1926. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (50a)

Margaret Mead sitting between two Samoan girls, ca. 1926. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (50b)

Margaret Mead sitting on a canoe in Samoa, ca. 1926. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (50c)

Margaret Mead. Letter to Ruth Benedict, October 11, 1925. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (52)

Margaret Mead, "Fitiuta," in field notebook #3 from Samoa. 1925-26. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (58)

Franz Boas. Letter to Margaret Mead, July 14, 1925. Typescript. Manuscript Division (61)

Margaret Mead. Letter to Ruth Benedict, January 4, 1926. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (63)

Margaret Mead. Letter to Derek Freeman, November 6, 1968. Typescript carbon. Manuscript Division (64)

William Morrow. Letter to Margaret Mead, June 20, 1928. Typescript. Manuscript Division (65)

Margaret Mead. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization. Translated into Japanese by Sachiko Hantanaka and Maroti Yamamoto. Tky, Japan: Sju Shob, 1976. Manuscript Division (67b)

Margaret Mead. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization. Translated into Hebrew by Nitzah Sabo. Haifa, Israel: "Ah," 1978. Manuscript Division (67c)

Margaret Mead's room in Samoa, ca. 1925-26. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (71a)

View of Samoan yard, probably from Margaret Mead's room, ca. 1925-26. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (71b)

Margaret Mead. "Field Bulletin XIII from Samoa, March 7, 1926." Typescript. Manuscript Division (78)

Margaret Mead. Social Organization of Manu'a. Honolulu: Bernice P. Bishop Museum, 1930 (80)

Margaret Mead. "South Sea Hints on Bringing Up Children," Parents' Magazine, September 1929. Manuscript Division (84)

E. R. Brand, "An American Princess of the South Seas," The New Age Illustrated, April 1928. Magazine article. Manuscript Division (84a)

Margaret Mead. Letter to Martha Ramsey Mead, April 24, 1927. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (85)

Margaret Mead, photographer. Houseboys, Pere Village, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 1928. From left to right: Kapeli, Pomat, Yesa, Kilipak, and Loponiu. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (91)

"Catching Fish in a Net" by Kilipak, New Guinea male age 13. Pencil drawing. Manuscript Division (92)

Margaret Mead, "Child Thought and Culture," undated, probably ca. 1930-31. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (94)

Margaret Mead. Letter to Reo Fortune, January 17, 1927 [original letter is misdated as 1926]. Manuscript, with additional notes by Fortune. Manuscript Division (98)

Margaret Mead. Field notebook with projective testing materials, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 1929. Manuscript Division (99)

Margaret Mead, "Melanesian Middlemen," Natural History, vol. XXX, no. 2, March-April 1930. Magazine article. Manuscript Division (100)

Margaret Mead, photographer. "Ponkob plays at writing," Pere Village, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 1929. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (104)

Reo Fortune or Margaret Mead, photographer. Margaret Mead and Reo Fortune in Pere Village, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 1928. Manuscript Division (106)

Reo Fortune, photographer. Margaret Mead on a canoe with Manus children, 1928. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (107)

Reo Fortune, photographer. Margaret Mead on crutches, Pere Village, Manus, 1929. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (109)

Reo Fortune, photographer. Margaret Mead carrying a Manus girl, probably Piwen, on her back, 1928. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (110)

Margaret Mead or Reo Fortune, photographer. "The mariners of the next generation," Pere Village, Manus, Admiralty Islands, ca. 1928-29. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (115)

Margaret Mead. Note slip, "C & P Ponkob Mar. 3," 1929. Manuscript. Manuscript Division. (115a)

Margaret Mead or Reo Fortune, photographer. "Small girl assistants supervised by Nauna," Pere Village, Manus, Admiralty Islands, 1928. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (115b)

Margaret Mead, photographer. Luwil Bomboi carrying his 2 ½-year old daughter Piwen. Manus, Admiralty Islands, 1929. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (120)

Margaret Mead. Note slip, "Piwen April 5," Manus, Admiralty Islands, 1929. Manuscript. Manuscript Division (120a)

Margaret Mead. "The Ethnographic Points of Manus Culture," draft of page from Appendix 2 of Growing Up in New Guinea, ca. 1929-30. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (122)

Alfred L. Kroeber. Letter to Margaret Mead, May 14, 1931. Typescript. Manuscript Division (129)

"Tooth Money Panic Feared." Boston Herald, February 2, 1930. Manuscript Division (132b)

Theodore or Lenora Schwartz, photographer. "The field work team, 1953." Margaret Mead, Lenora Schwartz, and Theodore Schwartz [left to right] with Manus children, 1953. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (267)

Theodore or Lenora Schwartz, photographer. "1928 Houseboys as adults," Johanis Lokus (Loponiu), Margaret Mead, Petrus Pomat, Raphael Manuwai [not in 1928 photo], John Kilipak- [left to right] with Manus children, 1953. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (268)

Margaret Mead fieldwork dress. Fabric. Courtesy of the Smithsonian Institution, the National Museum of American History, Behring Center (273)

Margaret Mead's notes on Arapesh pigs and dogs. "Pigs." ca. 1932. Typescript. Manuscript Division (136b)

Margaret Mead's notes on "women's work and men's," March 25, 1932. Typescript. Manuscript Division (136c)

Margaret Mead's notes on "reactions of a mixed group of women and children to HOME Magazine," ca. 1932. Typescript. Manuscript Division (136f)

"Group of Anthropologists Who Arrived on Macdhui." July 1933. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (139a)

Margaret Mead. Notes on squares from Tchambuli trip, ca. Spring 1933. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (140b)

Margaret Mead [and Reo Fortune]. "Summary Statement on the Problem of Personality and Culture." Tchambuli, 1933. Additional handwritten notes by Reo Fortune, probably June-July 1935. Typescript photocopy. Manuscript Division (142)

Karen Horney. Letter to Margaret Mead, February 8, [probably 1935]. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (143a)

Reo Fortune, photographer: . "Conducting Public Flutes." Alitoa Village, Arapesh, 1932. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (147)

Margaret Mead or Reo Fortune, photographer. Mundugumor woman holding baby. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (152)

"Jungle Expected to Reveal Why Boys Are Boys," New York Herald-Tribune, ca. Summer 1931. Manuscript Division (155)

Margaret Mead, "Theoretical considerations," ca. 1932. Typescript. Manuscript Division (156)

Margaret Mead. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. [Inscribed from Margaret Mead to Gregory Bateson, May 9, 1935.] New York: Morrow, 1935. Manuscript Division (156a)

Therese Benedek. "Sex Relations--Primitive & Sophisticated," Saturday Review, October 15, 1949. Manuscript Division (156d)

Margaret Mead, "An Ethnologist's Footnote to Totem and Taboo," 1930. Reprint. Manuscript Division (160a)

"'Everybody Works But Father' in New Guinea Tribe Visited by Dauntless Woman Scientist and Husband," The Pittsburgh Press, September 21, 1933. Manuscript Division (163)

Reo Fortune, probable photographer. "Her First Doll," photograph published ca. 1933. [Original photo ca. 1932]. Manuscript Division (164a)

Mundugumor Painting I. Color painting of lizard and frog by Maikava, male, age 17, Kenakatem, December 4, 1932. Manuscript Division (172a)

Mundugumor Painting II. Color painting by Yeshimba, adult male, Kenakatem, December 4, 1932. Manuscript Division (172b)

Margaret Mead. Letter to Maurine D. Burgess, August 26, 1937. Typescript carbon. Manuscript Division (175)

Margaret Mead. "Tchambuli Language Memorizing Book," ca. 1933. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (178)

Tchambuli Lake, ca. 1933. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (179)

Reo Fortune, photographer. "Tchambuli woman and child," ca. 1933. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (180b)

Margaret Mead. "Medicine Book, Bajoeng Gede, June 14, 1936-June 1937." Bound notebook. Manuscript Division (182)

Margaret Mead. "Afternoon with the Karmas," September 20, 1936. Typescript. Manuscript Division (185)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. I Gati holding I Kenjoen in a sling, Bajoeng Gedé, Bali, August 19, 1937. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (193a)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. I Karmi holding I Kenjoen on her lap, Bajoeng Gedé, Bali, February 12, 1939. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (193b)

Margaret Mead's admissions permit for Batavia, Java, Netherlands East Indies, March 16, 1936. Government document. Manuscript Division. (194a)

Margaret Mead reaching out towards Doemoen, about 18 months, in the arms of her mother's brother's wife, December 12, 1936. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (199)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. Margaret Mead medicating the feet of I Kenjoen, held by her father, Nang Karma. Bajoeng Gedé, Bali, September 20, 1936. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (200b)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. Nang Karma holding infant daughter I Kenjoen in his lap, with son I Gata alongside. Bajoeng Gedé, Bali, September 20, 1936. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (200n)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. Nang Karma holding infant daughter I Kenjoen in his arms, with son I Gata behind. Bajoeng Gedé, Bali, September 20, 1936. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (200p)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. Nang Karma holding infant daughter I Kenjoen in his arms, with son I Gata leaning across his lap. Bajoeng Gedé, Bali, September 20, 1936. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (200v)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. Nang Oera teaching his son Karba, aged 393 days, to play the xylophone. Bajoeng Gedé, February 5, 1937. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (204a)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. I Mario of Tabanan teaching I Dewa P. Djaja of Kedere to dance. Tabanan, Bali, December 1, 1936. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (204c)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. I Karbo, 14 ½ months, splashing water on I Sami, 7 months, who is in a wash tub, April 30, 1937. Manuscript Division (204e)

Margaret Mead. "Bathing I Sami (Sama)," field notes for April 30, 1937. Bajoeng Gedé, Bali. Typescript. Manuscript Division. (204g)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. Margaret Mead and I Madé Kalér interviewing Nang Karma and I Gata, Bajoing Gedé, Bali. Undated, probably ca. 1937. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (217a)

Ken Heyman, photographer. Margaret Mead holding a baby who is teething on Mead's necklace. Bajoeng Gedé (now Bayung Gedé), Bali, January 1958. Manuscript Division. (277)

Margaret Mead. Iatmul field notes for May 5, 1938. Bound Notebook. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (203a)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson working among the Iatmul, Tambunam, 1938. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (211a)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson working in the mosquito room, Tambunam, 1938. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (211b)

Iatmul child's drawing, probably by Pawi, June 9, 1938. Pencil on paper. Manuscript Division (214e)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. Iatmul woman holding a baby on her arm, 1938. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (215)

Gregory Bateson, photographer. Margaret Mead giving a doll back to a child, after showing her how to hold it. Tambunam, Iatmul, August 7, 1938. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division. (216f)

Margaret Mead. Scenes with doll, first time seen," Tambunam, Iatmul, August 7, 1938. Typescript. Manuscript Division. (216i)

I Ketoet (Ketut) Ngéndon of Batoean (now Batuan), "Goodbye and Good Luck to Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson," 1938. Ink on Paper. On loan from Mary Catherine Bateson (219)

"Learning to Live in One World"

Margaret Mead. And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America. New York: Morrow, 1942. Courtesy of Patricia Francis (220d)

Schedule for Margaret Mead's December 10-13, 1942, visit to the Menninger Clinic. Typescript with handwritten notes by Dr. Karl Menninger. Manuscript Division (221b)

Edward Sherwood Mead. Letter to Margaret Mead, August 4, [probably 1942]. Holograph manuscript. Manuscript Division (229)

Fanny Buford. "A Comment on Miss Mead's Book And Keep Your Powder Dry," January 25, 1943. Typescript. enclosed in letter, probably from Caroline Ware, March 17, 1943. Typescript. Manuscript Division (230)

Gerald W. Johnson. "A Chuckling Anthropologist Studies Us," New York Herald Tribune, November 22, 1942. Manuscript Division (233)

Margaret Mead. "What Makes Americans Tick?" Vogue, February 1, 1943. Manuscript Division (236)

Margaret Mead. Letter to Leo Rosten [unsent]. October 14, 1942. Typescript [signed]. Manuscript Division. (238a)

Rumors Cost Us Lives. Offset lithograph, ca. 1941-1945. Prints & Photographs Division (238b)

Margaret Mead. "Appendix for Part Two," page of notes from unpublished 1945 book manuscript, Learning to Live in One World. Typescript. Manuscript Division (239)

National Research Council Committee on Food Habits. "Food and Morale," Appendix I, November 19, 1942. Typescript. Manuscript Division (244c)

Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson. "Disaster for Dictators: Food shortage," "Danger for Democracies: Destruction of Food," "Danger for Democracies: Corruption in Industries," and

"Disaster for Dictators: Crippled Industries," playing cards for board game, ca. 1940. Manuscript Division (247g-j)

Section3-Subtext2

Margaret Mead. Page from Learning to Live in One World manuscript, July 9, 1945. Typescript. Manuscript Division (249)

Arthur Herzog, photographer. "Margaret Mead and Rhoda Métraux looking at children's 'Sputnik' drawings," 1958. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (252a)

Balinese child's drawing of Sputnik orbiting the earth by a male, aged 13, ca. 1957-58. Pencil on paper. Manuscript Division. (252f)

Balinese child's drawing of Sputnik by a female, aged 13, ca. 1957-58. Pencil on paper. Manuscript Division. (252g)

American child's drawing of Sputnik by a female, aged 13, October 16, 1957. Crayon on paper. Manuscript Division. (252h)

American child's drawing of Sputnik by a female, aged 13, October 18, 1957. Manuscript Division (252l)

Margaret Mead, "The Dangerous Godless Brain," Look, 22, January 21, 1958. Manuscript Division (252p)

Ken Heyman, photographer. Margaret Mead talking to Balinese students. Denpasar, Bali, January 1958. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Ken Heyman (252q)

Margaret Mead, editor. Cultural Patterns and Technical Change: A Manual Prepared by the World Federation of Mental Health. Paris: UNESCO, 1953. Manuscript Division (255b)

Section3-Subtext3

Dr. Benjamin Spock. Prescription for corrective shoes, probably ca. November 1940. Manuscript. Manuscript Division (23)

Dr. Benjamin Spock examining Mary Catherine Bateson, ca. early 1940. Copyprint. Manuscript Division (28)

Margaret Mead and R. Buckminster Fuller at Delos VII Conference, Greece, July 1969. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (253)

Athens Technological Organization--The 1970 Athens Ekistics Month Daily Program, July 13, 1970. Typescript. Manuscript Division (253b)

Photograph of 1970 Athens Ekistics Month participants. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (253c)

Margaret Mead. Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap. Garden City, New York: Natural History Press/Doubleday, 1970. Manuscript Division (256)

Peter Goldberg, photographer. "JK presents a gift of Papua-New Guinea money to the American Museum of Natural History." New York City, 1979. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (262)

Margaret Mead conducting a tele-lecture in 1960, probably at Omaha University, Omaha, Nebraska, November 11, 1960. Manuscript Division (282a)

Audience question for Margaret Mead, May 14, 1978. Index card. Manuscript Division (283)

Margaret Mead. Letter to Robert Lowie, April 8, 1956. Typescript carbon. Manuscript Division (291a)

Margaret Mead's diary entry for April 20, 1940, regarding Catherine's behavior on train trip. Diary. Manuscript Division (294a)

Margaret Mead. "Violence and Your Child," TV Guide, March 21, 1959. Magazine article. Manuscript Division (296)

Margaret Mead. "Do We Undervalue Full-Time Wives." Redbook, November 1963, vol. 122, no. 1. Manuscript Division (299a)

Ken Heyman, photographer. Margaret Mead with a secretary in a storage room adjacent to her tower office at the American Museum of Natural History, New York City, 1960. Gelatin silver print. Courtesy of Ken Heyman (300e)

Margaret Mead and James Baldwin. A Rap on Race. Philadelphia and New York: Lippincott, 1971. Manuscript Division (304)

Margaret Mead's testimony before the Subcommittee on Monopoly of the Select Committee on Small Business of The U.S. Senate, October 27, 1969. Reprint. Manuscript Division (306a)

United Press International. "Margaret Mead's for Legal Pot," Washington, D.C., October 27, 1969. Newspaper clipping with handwritten comments. Manuscript Division (306b)

Margaret Mead. "Marriage in Two Steps." Redbook, July 1966, vol. 127, no. 3. Manuscript Division (308a)

Margaret Mead's calendar for May 1976. Calendar. Manuscript Division (309)

Margaret Mead, "Remarks made in McMillan Auditorium to the group assembled there at 3.20 PM, April 30, 1968." Typescript photocopy. Manuscript Division. (310a)

Paul Fusco or Charlotte Brooks, photographer. S.D.S. (Students for a Democratic Society) at Columbia University, May 29, 1968. Copyprint. Prints & Photographs Division (310b)

Israel Shenker. "Anthropologists Clash over Their Colleagues' Ethics in Thailand." The New York Times, November 21, 1971. Manuscript Division (311a)

Clyde Satterwhite. "Margaret Mead Is Dead At 76." New York Daily News, November 16, 1978. Manuscript Division. (312d)

Margaret Mead. "The Natural Ferocity of the Female." This Week magazine, The Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin, August 3, 1969. Manuscript Division (316)

"Margaret Mead Today: Mother to the World." Time, March 21, 1969. Manuscript Division (317)

"Margaret Mead listens to him. Why don't you?" Advertisement for Culture and Commitment, in The Saturday Review, January 17, 1970. Manuscript Division (318)

Brochure advertising Male and Female as Franklin and Marshall College Book-of-the-Semester for Spring 1959. Typescript leaflet with cartoon. © 1956 The New Yorker Magazine, Inc. Manuscript Division (319a)

Al Capp. "L'il Abner" comic strip, World News Syndicate, March 5, 1970. Newspaper clipping. © Capp Enterprises, Inc. Manuscript Division (319b)

Mike Peters cartoon on Margaret Mead. The Dayton Daily News, November 6, 1969. Newspaper clipping. © Courtesy of Tribune Media Services. Manuscript Division (319f)

Margaret Mead, personal notebook, begun August 1, 1978. Bound notebook. Manuscript Division (322)

Program from "A Washington Memorial Service: Margaret Mead, 1901-1978," Washington Cathedral, December 7, 1978. Leaflet. Manuscript Division (325)

Shari Segal, photographer. Margaret Mead in Hancock, New Hampshire, May 26, 1975. Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division (333)

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