Blackberry Winter My Earlier Years Author:Margaret Mead The intimate personal story behind the pioneering achievements of the world's most famous anthropologist. — Frankly and eloquently Dr. Mead relates here the events of her life up to World War II and the effects each of her remarkable experiences has had on her as a woman. — After childhood and school days in Pennsylvania and one year at DePauw Uni... more »versity in Indiana, the scene shifts to Barnard College in New York. There, under the influence of anthropologists Ruth Benedict and Franz Boas, the seeds of Margaret Mead's lifelong career were planted....
Vividly described are Dr. Mead's early field trips - to Samoa, New Guinea, Bali - and the opposition she overcame as a very young woman studying alone the primitive peoples of the South Seas, then an activity at once unprecedented and shocking to many.« less
I love this book. I don't generally like autobiographies, but this was a great read. Mead has lead an interesting life and tells her story in an enjoyable way.