An Anthropologist at Work is the product of a long collaboration between Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead. Mead, who was Benedict's student, colleague, and event

Originally published: Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1959.

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Recounts the French illustrator's life and accomplishments.