Margaret Mead

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born

December 16, 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States

died

November 15, 1978

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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the '60s and '70s as a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and western life but also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.

Her reports as to the purportedly healthy attitude towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the '60s "sexual revolution" and it was only at the end of her life and career that her propositions were – albeit controversially – challenged by a maverick fellow anthropologist and literate members of societies she had long before studied and reported on. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a...more

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Average rating: 3.55 · 1,294 ratings · 130 reviews · 43 distinct works

	Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation 3.42 avg rating — 740 ratings — published 1928 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies 3.63 avg rating — 142 ratings — published 1935 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years by Margaret Mead, Nancy Lutkehaus 3.81 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1972 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Male and Female 3.55 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1949 — 10 editions	My rating:
	Growing Up in New Guinea 3.56 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1930 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 4.06 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1977 — 4 editions	My rating:
	And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America by Margaret Mead, Herve Varenne (Editor) 3.07 avg rating — 14 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters by Margaret Mead, Margaret M. Caffrey (Editor), Patricia Francis (Editor) 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2006	My rating:
	Culture And Commitment: The New Relationships Between The Generations In The 1970s 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	A Rap on Race by James Baldwin, Margaret Mead 3.90 avg rating — 29 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: activism , change , inspirational , life , philosophy , world

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“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: children , education , judgement , mentoring , reasoning

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“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
― Margaret Mead

tags: children , delightful , individuality , loathsome , people , stereotypes

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