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Breen, Benjamin, 1985-
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Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980.
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Anthropology -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Breen, Benjamin, 1985-
Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980.
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Anthropology -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Tripping on utopia :
Margaret
Mead
, the
Cold
War
, and the
troubled
birth
of
psychedelic
science
/ Benjamin Breen.
by
Breen, Benjamin, 1985-
Grand Central Publishing, 2024.
Call #:
301.0721 B832t
Subjects
Mead
,
Margaret
, 1901-1978.
Bateson, Gregory, 1904-1980.
Hallucinogenic drugs -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Anthropology -- Research -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
ISBN:
9781538722374 (hc.)
Alternate title:
Margaret
Mead
, the
Cold
War
, and the
troubled
birth
of
psychedelic
science
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 369 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-354) and index.
Summary:
""It was not the Baby Boomers who ushered in the first era of widespread drug experimentation. It was their parents." Far from the repressed traditionalists they are often painted as, the generation that survived the second World
War
emerged with a profoundly ambitious sense of social experimentation. In the '40s and '50s, transformative drugs rapidly entered mainstream culture, where they were not only legal, but openly celebrated. American physician John C. Lilly infamously dosed dolphins (and himself) with LSD in a NASA-funded effort to teach dolphins to talk. A tripping Cary Grant mumbled into a Dictaphone about Hegel as astronaut John Glenn returned to Earth. At the center of this revolution were the pioneering anthropologists--and star-crossed lovers--Margaret
Mead
and Gregory Bateson. Convinced the world was headed toward certain disaster,
Mead
and Bateson made it their life's mission to reshape humanity through a new
science
of consciousness expansion, but soon found themselves at odds with the government bodies who funded their work, whose intentions were less than pure.
Mead
and Bateson's partnership unlocks an untold chapter in the history of the twentieth century, linking drug researchers with CIA agents, outsider sexologists, and the founders of the Information Age. As we follow
Mead
and Bateson's fractured love affair from the malarial jungles of New Guinea to the temples of Bali, from the espionage of WWII to the scientific revolutions of the
Cold
War
, a new origin story for
psychedelic
science
emerges."--From publisher.
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