Margaret Mead's New Guinea Journal

Duration: 88

Genre: Documentary | Ethnographic

Year Published: 1968

Creator: WNET/13

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Copyright: Registered 17Nov68 · MP20743 (Jul-Dec 1970) Copyright holder: National Educational Television & Radio Center

Description: Looks at the culture change in the village of Peri on Manus, one of the Admiralty Islands in the Australian Trust territory of New Guinea. Cites Peri's movement from the Stone Age to the twentieth century between anthropologist Margaret Mead's two visits to the village in 1928 and 1953. Documents, during Margaret Mead's latest visit in 1967, the personal and historical factors which made this change possible., Looks at the cultural change in the village of Peri on Manus, one of the Admiralty Islands in the Australian Trust territory of New Guinea. Cites Peri's movement from the stone age to the twentieth century between anthropologist Margaret Mead's two visits to the village in 1928 and 1953. Documents, during Margaret Mead's latest visit in 1967, the personal and historical factors which made this change possible.

Complete Record: Looks at the culture change in the village of Peri on Manus, one of the Admiralty Islands in the Australian Trust territory of New Guinea. Cites Peri's movement from the Stone Age to the twentieth century between anthropologist Margaret Mead's two visits to the village in 1928 and 1953. Documents, during Margaret Mead's latest visit in 1967, the personal and historical factors which made this change possible., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.