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This is the story of the extraordinary friendship between renowned anthropologists Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. First as mentor and protegee, later as colleagues and lovers, these two women forged a bond that endured for 25 years, defying convention as well as easy categorization.
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Kirkus评论
This book offers both respectable fieldwork and a respectful interpretation of a singular relationship between two world- famous anthropologists. Since Margaret Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, wrote a memoir of her parents (With a Daughter's Eye, 1984), the lesbian link between Mead and Ruth Benedict has been no secret. Lapsley (Women's Studies/Univ. of Waikato, New Zealand) casts a fresh eye on a complex friendship that lasted 25 years. Mead and Benedict first met in 1922, when Mead was a student at Barnard College and Benedict was a teaching assistant to famed anthropologist Franz Boas. The two women probably became lovers a year or so later, but their love affair deepened into an intellectual and emotional compatibility that survived Mead's three husbands, Benedict's failed marriage and later lesbian commitments, and even a kind of triangle with linguist Edward Safir. Beginning with the duo's early years, Lapsley echos their professional insights by trying to frame their experiences within the culture that formed them. Part of this includes the accepted ``romantic attachments'' between young women in college prior to marriage and the so-called Boston Marriages of women in womanly careers (social work, teaching) that marked the early 1900s. Lapsley follows Mead to Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali and Benedict in her struggles to establish herself in a chauvinist academic sphere at Columbia/Barnard. Throughout their long history was the need to hide any hints of lesbianism, which, in the climate of the 1920s and even later, would have destroyed careers and reputations. The important question, of course, is, how fundamentally did these lesbian relationships influence the conclusions of their ground-breaking research? Significantly is the answer posed here, at least for Mead. Feminist scholars, anthropologists, and students of that post-WWI era when gender roles were in motion will appreciate this complex tale of two friends who stuck it out. (16 illustrations, not seen)
《书目》(Booklist)书评
Anyone who has ever taken an introduction to cultural anthropology course should enjoy this biography of the intimate relationship between two of the discipline's early, modern female pioneers, Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict. From their meeting at Columbia University in the early 1920s until Benedict's death in 1948, Mead and Benedict remained close despite the interruption of marriage, affairs, fieldwork, and jealous colleagues. The book brings to life such prominent anthropologists as Franz Boas, Edward Sapir, and Gregory Bateson as well as poets Leonie Adams and Edna St. Vincent Millay. This account traces the career of Mead as she popularizes ethnographies with her commentary on the people and cultures of the South Pacific and that of Benedict as she fights the misogyny of academia. Author Lapsley, using poetry, dream interpretation, and written correspondence by the two women and their shared friends and colleagues, weaves an easily read and enjoyable narrative. --Julia Glynn
Choice 评论
Young women who entered the field of anthropology in the 1960s knew, as did this reviewer, that women had made pathbreaking contributions to the discipline. Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead, Elsie Clews Parsons, Ruth Bunzel, Cora DuBois, and Frederica De LaGuna, to name a few, were respected and gifted leaders in the discipline. Female graduate students studied with these brilliant women, whose careers they followed and whose lives they took to be models for their own. They appreciated opportunities to see and hear from the pioneers, to attend meetings in order to refresh their enthusiasm for their work. Unmentioned was the way in which these women drew strength from their association with each other. Lapsley's book is not simply about two innovative, "self-actualized" women but also about the "kinship of women," its loyalties, its commitments, and the courage required to sustain it, which nurtures collegiality and synergistic collaboration. The professional consequences of this kinship are seldom explored in print. Mead and Benedict encouraged each other for more than 30 years. That such focus, attention, and regard should be thought peculiar, require courage, or be cloaked in secrecy is a question Lapsley implicitly raises in a beautifully documented and crafted text. All levels. L. De Danaan; Evergreen State College