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Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. [1] She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College of Columbia University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia.
Jun 14, 2024 · Margaret Mead, American anthropologist whose great fame owed as much to the force of her personality and her outspokenness as it did to the quality of her scientific work. Author of 23 books, she was best known for her work with the nonliterate peoples of Oceania, especially with regard to their psychology and culture.
May 4, 2023 · Margaret Mead was a pioneering anthropologist whose work had a profound impact on the field and beyond. Her research in Samoa challenged traditional assumptions about gender roles and helped to shape our understanding of the complex relationship between culture and individual personality.
May 5, 2010 · Cultural anthropologist and writer Margaret Meade (1901-1978) was born in Philadelphia and graduated from Barnard College in 1923. Appointed assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum...
Apr 2, 2014 · Margaret Mead was a cultural anthropologist and writer best known for her studies and publications on the subject.
Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia on December 16, 1901, and grew up in a household that included three generations. She was the first of five children born to Edward Sherwood Mead and Emily Fogg Mead, social scientists who had met while attending the University of Chicago.
Coming of Age in Samoa. Based on her study of 68 girls in three villages in the western part of Ta'u island, Mead reported that adolescence was not a stressful time, compared with the expectation of adolescent “storm and stress” in Western societies. She attributed this difference to cultural factors.
Mead was one of the earliest American anthropologists to apply techniques and theories from modern psychology to understanding culture. She believed that cultures emphasize certain aspects of human potential at the expense of others.
Margaret Mead. History. Contact Information. Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia on December 16, 1901. Her mother, who was interested in child development, filled thirteen notebooks with data on her firstborn's early years.
When Margaret Mead died in 1978, she was the most famous anthropologist in the world. Indeed, it was through her work that many people learned about anthropology and its holistic vision of the human species.
