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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 5, 2010 · Margaret Mead was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1976. She died of pancreatic cancer on November 15, 1978, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential...
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.
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.
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.
Jul 27, 2010 · Margaret Mead (1901-1978) noted American anthropologist and writer, studied life among peoples in Samoa, Papua New Guinea, Bali, and Native North America.
Aug 14, 2019 · The anthropologist Margaret Mead is widely known for stating that human nature is “almost unbelievably malleable,” meaning that individual identity—including gender—is shaped more by culture than by biology.
May 29, 2019 · Margaret Mead (1901–1978) was the best-known anthropologist of the 20th century. At the time of her death, she was also one of the three best-known women in the United States and America’s first woman of science.
Anthropologist, explorer, writer, and teacher Margaret Mead taught Americans the value of looking at other cultures to understand the complexity of the human experience. She worked in the Museum's Division of Anthropology from 1926 until her death in 1978.
