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| Born | December 16, 1901 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Died | November 15, 1978 (aged 76) New York City, U.S. |
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| Occupation | Anthropologist |
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| Children | Mary Catherine Bateson |
| Relatives | Jeremy Steig (nephew) |
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Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently 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. Mead served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975.[2]
Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic.[3] Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution.[4] She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within the context of Western cultural traditions.
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- ^ Horgan, John. "Margaret Mead's bashers owe her an apology". Scientific America.
- ^ Popova, Marie (February 6, 2014). "Legendary Anthropologist Magaret Mead on the Fluidity of Human Sexuality in 1933". brainpickings.