Margaret Mead is perhaps the world's best-known cultural anthropologist. Although her work has not escaped criticism, books like Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing up in New Guinea, and And Keep Your Powder Dry have become enduring classics. In her lifetime, Mead was a true public intellectual...
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 o
Margaret Mead summary:Margaret was born on December 16, 1901 in the Pennsylvania City of Brotherly Love, Philadelphia. Her parents were intellectuals. Her father taught studies in finance and economy at the University of Pennsylvania and her mother was a sociologist, a political activist as well a...
Comments on the book 'Coming of Age in Samoa,' by Margaret Mead and the Boasian culturalism. Importance of anthropological issues; Visitation of Margaret Mead to Samoa in Western Polynesia; Effects of physiology on the 'phenomena of adolescence.'...
doi:10.3152/147154500781782695Derek FreemanPeter A. CorningPolitics and the Life Sciences
Margaret Mead was the United States' best-known anthropologist of the twentieth century and a pioneering scholar on the subjects of sex and gender. Mead's major contributions to the study of sex and gender are reflected in four important works: Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), Growing Up in...