Margaret Mead

Profession: Cultural Anthropologist

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Biography: A popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture, she was a respected and often controversial academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures shaped the 1960s sexual revolution.

Born: December 16, 1901
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Generation: Greatest Generation
Chinese Zodiac: Ox
Star Sign: Sagittarius

Died: November 15, 1978 (aged 76)
Cause of Death: Pancreatic cancer

Married Life

1923-09-03 Cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead (21) weds field archaeologist Luther Cressman (25)

Historical Events

1925-08-31 Anthropologist Margaret Mead first arrives in Samoa
1979-01-19 US President Jimmy Carter announces he is awarding Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously to anthropologist Margaret Mead

Quotes by Margaret Mead

"Children must be taught how to think, not what to think."