Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. Acknowledgments xv
6. Introduction: Mead as American Icon 1
7. Chapter 1. Mead as Modern Woman 25
8. Chapter 2. Images of the Mature Mead 58
9. Chapter 3. Mead as Anthropologist: “Sex in the South Seas” 83
10. Chapter 4. Mead as Anthropologist: “To Study Cannibals” 113
11. Chapter 5. Mead as Anthropologist: “To Find Out How Girls Learn to Be Girls” 133
12. Chapter 6. Mead and the Image of the Anthropologist 151
13. Chapter 7. Mead as Scientist 165
14. Chapter 8. Mead as Public Intellectual and Celebrity 205
15. Chapter 9. The Posthumous Mead, or Mead, the Public Anthropologist 238
16. Abbreviations of Archival Sources 265
17. Notes 267
18. Bibliography 331
19. Index 361