Despite the years that have passed since the author presented these reflections as part of the ???Man and Nature??? series, her ideas remain fresh and affect us more than ever. From her long and mature experience as an anthropologist, Margaret Mead questions in this work the essence of history as a process of transmission of knowledge and values. The author asks herself what are the commitments that today's younger generations can still assume with the legacies of the past. And this text is an invitation and a challenge to ...
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Despite the years that have passed since the author presented these reflections as part of the ???Man and Nature??? series, her ideas remain fresh and affect us more than ever. From her long and mature experience as an anthropologist, Margaret Mead questions in this work the essence of history as a process of transmission of knowledge and values. The author asks herself what are the commitments that today's younger generations can still assume with the legacies of the past. And this text is an invitation and a challenge to reflect on the uncertain and disturbing future of humanity. In the words of Verena Stolcke in the foreword, Mead argues that ???neither adolescence nor the other stages of life should be interpreted as an individual experience, but that they always consist of a variable sociocultural relationship characteristic of a specific society and also depend on the prevailing fabric and structures of kinship???.
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