margaret mead

     

Margaret Mea (December 16, 1901, Philadelphia – November 15, 1978, New York City) was an American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and western life, and also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the purportedly healthy attitude towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life.

Trivia about margaret mead

  • She titled her Ph.D. thesis "An Inquiry into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia"
  • In 1925 this American anthropologist first visited Samoa; she wrote a book about it 3 years later
  • Born in Philadelphia in 1901, she would later graduate from Barnard & spend some time in Samoa
  • The American Museum of Natural History has an annual film festival named for this anthropologist
  • This anthropologist told about her early years in 1972's "Blackberry Winter"
  • In 1942 she published "And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America"
  • Works by this anthropologist include "Growing up in New Guinea"
  • In 1925 Prof. Franz Boas sent this author & anthropologist on her first field study in American Samoa
  • Marry anthropologist Reo Fortune in 1928, lose Fortune in '35, marry anthropologist Gregory Bateson in '36
  • Philadelphia-born anthropologists include this "Coming of Age in Samoa" author seen here
  • In 1948 she became director of Research in Contemporary Cultures at Columbia University
  • Joan T. Mark's biography of this woman is subtitled "Coming of Age in America"
  • She wrote extensively about island teens in her bestseller "Coming of Age in Samoa"
  • She's the woman seen here with some of her artifacts

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