The changing culture of an Indian tribe
Margaret Mead (Author, Writer of introduction), Clark Wissler
"Shortly after her famous anthropological field studies in Samoa and Manus, Margaret Mead was sent by the American Museum of Natural History to investigate the family life and the social setting of an Indian tribe living on a government reservation. The pioneer work that resulted from her observations is here reprinted with a new introduction relating our treatment of the Indians to the whole question of "racial guilt." Dr. Mead sketches in the background of the tribe, describes their reservation, and discusses the economic and political situation of these wards of the government, as well as their social organization, religion and education. One section is devoted to a detailed study of the Indian woman and her place in this changing culture, and a concluding section provides statistical data, sample conversations and case histories."-- Back cover
Print Book, English, 1966, ©1965
Capricorn Books, New York, 1966, ©1965
Capricorn giant, 266
xxiii, 313 pages ; 21 cm.
847822
Foreword / by Clark Wissler
Introduction: The study of culture contact. Method of this study
pt. 1. General background. Retrospective sketch
Description of the reservation
The economic situation
Political life
Social organization
Religious institutions and attitudes
The educational situation
pt. 2. The Indian woman: her place in this changing culture. The degree to which woman participates in the culture
The organization of the household
Maladjustment as an index of conflict
pt. 3. Tabular and diagrammatic treatment of raw materials. Household organization
Marital situation
Case studies of twenty-five delinquent girls and women
Supporting data for earlier statements
Notes on the possibility of studying the mixed-blood situation
Sample conversations
A study of the Omaha for whom the author used the pseudonym, the "Antlers."
Originally published in 1932 as: Columbia University contributions to anthropology, v. 15