image article Anthropological Toes: Margaret Mead's Jungle Feet
Lisa Wynn*
Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia
*Corresponding author: Lisa Wynn, Department of Anthropology, Macquarie University, Australia. Email: lisa.l.wynn@gmail.com
Received Date: 14 June, 2018; Accepted Date: 16 June, 2018; Published Date: 23 June, 2018
Citation: Wynn L (2018) Anthropological Toes: Margaret Mead's Jungle Feet. Anthropol Open Acc: AOAP-120. DOI: 10.29011/AOAP-120.100020
Description
This is a drawing of Margaret Mead's foot, drawn from imagination, as there are no surviving photographs of her feet with sufficient detail. Here, the author has imagined them as a little crusty and splayed from living for 2 years in the jungles of the Sepik region of Papua New Guinea with Reo Fortune [1-6].
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