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Margaret Mead a portrait by a friend

French filmmaker Jean Rouch interviews AMNH anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead speaks about her personal history, her family, her influences and mentors, and her field work in Bali, New Guinea, and Manus (also known as Great Admiralty Island). Mead and Rouch walk through the AMNH Hall of Pacific Peoples, and she discusses her theories about museum exhibits. They also visit the Dept. of Anthropology specimen storage area. Towards the conclusion of her interview, Mead considers the history of anthropology and speculates on its future role in building new cultures.

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  • "French filmmaker Jean Rouch interviews AMNH anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead speaks about her personal history, her family, her influences and mentors, and her field work in Bali, New Guinea, and Manus (also known as Great Admiralty Island). Mead and Rouch walk through the AMNH Hall of Pacific Peoples, and she discusses her theories about museum exhibits. They also visit the Dept. of Anthropology specimen storage area. Towards the conclusion of her interview, Mead considers the history of anthropology and speculates on its future role in building new cultures."@en
  • "French filmmaker Jean Rouch interviews AMNH anthropologist Margaret Mead. Mead speaks about her personal history, her family, her influences and mentors, and her field work in Bali, New Guinea, and Manus (also known as Great Admiralty Island). Mead and Rouch walk through the AMNH Hall of Pacific Peoples, and she discusses her theories about museum exhibits. They also visit the Dept. of Anthropology specimen storage area. Towards the conclusion of her interview, Mead considers the history of anthropology and speculates on its future role in building new cultures."@en
  • "Made by French filmmaker Jean Rouch, in September 1977, when he was a guest of the American Museum of Natural History Margaret Mead Film Festival. Mead talks with him as they walk round the Museum. She speaks of her personal history, her family, and mentors and the influence of Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict . Mead goes on to speak of her field work in Bali, New Guinea, and Manus (also known as Great Admiralty Island). She discloses her theories about museum exhibits, discusses human extinction in the light of what man has done to the environment and later considers the history of anthropology and speculates on its future role in building new cultures."

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  • "DVD-Video discs"@en
  • "Documentary films"@en
  • "Interviews"
  • "Interviews"@en
  • "Biography"
  • "Biography"@en
  • "Encoded moving images"@en
  • "Ethnographic films"@en
  • "Nonfiction films"@en
  • "Documentary videos"@en

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