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Margaret Mead

Born

in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, The United States

December 16, 1901

Died

November 15, 1978

Genre

Nonfiction, Anthropology

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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: 3.69 · 5,919 ratings · 475 reviews · 173 distinct works • Similar authors

	Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation 3.55 avg rating — 3,198 ratings — published 1928 — 172 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies 3.81 avg rating — 722 ratings — published 1935 — 104 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years 3.92 avg rating — 453 ratings — published 1972 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World – A Classic Cultural Anthropology of Pacific Island Tribes and Gender 3.55 avg rating — 207 ratings — published 1949 — 89 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Growing Up in New Guinea 3.69 avg rating — 187 ratings — published 1930 — 73 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Culture and Commitment: The New Relationships Between the Generations in the 1970s 3.67 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1970 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Letters from the Field, 1925-1975: Personal Memoir with Photographs―Understanding Island Cultures in Samoa, New Guinea, and Bali 4.14 avg rating — 71 ratings — published 1977 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	And Keep Your Powder Dry 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings — published 1942 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	People and Places 3.52 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1959 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples 4.13 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1983 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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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

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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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“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”
― Margaret Mead

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