For a man who published relatively little during his lifetime (1863-1931), George Herbert Mead's prominence and influence is surprising. A little more than 30 articles and some book reviews and miscellaneous pieces were all that he had to show for a lifetime's research and teaching. No other figure prominent in the social sciences has been celebrated for work which in its most influential form was culled by lecture notes taken by others - such as Self and Society (1934) - or assembled from fragments of unfinished manuscripts and papers after his death.