[Copy of] Letter from Margaret Mead to Muzafer Sherif, May 31, 1932
in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N92: Papua New Guinea, Folder 3: New Guinea. Arapesh, Mundugumor, and Tchambuli. Mead and Fortune field trip, 1931-33. General correspondence) (District of Columbia) (31 May 1932) , 2 page(s)
Details
- Abstract / Summary
- In a one-page, typed letter with postscript on the back, Margaret Mead replies to a letter from social psychologist Muzafer Sherif, who had asked her for references for an unnamed book chapter she wrote having to do with color perception and classification among native groups. Mead says she cannot keep references in her head when in the field, but points Sherif to people working in the field, particularly Otto Klineberg at Columbia University. She briefly describes her field technique and offers examples and a postscript anecdote from her current work with a Papuan mountain tribe. A note written at the top indicates this copy is 'Xeroxed.'
- Field of Interest
- Anthropology
- Content Type
- Letter
- Duration
- 0 sec
- Anthropologist / Ethnographer
- Margaret Mead, 1901-1978
- Warning: Contains explicit content
- No
- Format
- Text
- Page Count
- 2
- Page Range
- 1-2
- Subject
- Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Perceptions and senses, Ethnopsychology, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, East Sepik Province, East Sepik, Muzafer Sherif, 1906-1988, Papua New Guineans
- Keywords and Translated Subjects
- Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, East Sepik Province