Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1901-12-16
Deathday: 1978-11-15 (76 years old)

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Biography

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.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.Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic. Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within the context of Western cultural traditions.

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Known For
Directing

Gender
Female

Birthday
1901-12-16

Deathday
1978-11-15 (76 years old)

Birth Place
Philadelphia, United States of America

Religion
Anglicanism

Height

Relationships
Reo Fortune (1928-01-01 - 1935-01-01), Luther Cressman (1923-01-01 - 1928-01-01), Gregory Bateson (1936-01-01 - 1950-01-01)

Children
Mary Catherine Bateson

Father
Edward Sherwood Mead

Mother
Emily Fogg

Citizenships
United States of America

Awards
Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement, National Women's Hall of Fame, Gold Medal of the Society of Woman Geographers, honorary doctor of the University of Miami, Kalinga Prize, Presidential Medal of Freedom


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