Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead (Dec 16, 1901 – Nov 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City
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Margaret Mead (Dec 16, 1901 – Nov 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University. Mead served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975. Mead served as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1925-1969. She studied youth and adolescence in Samoan society, published as Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). Mead published prolifically, becoming a seminal figure in anthropology and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979.
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