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Biography: Life of Margaret Meade
Born 1901, Died 1978
Noted anthropologist Margaret Mead was born on December 16, 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Mead received her undergraduate degree from Barnard University in 1923. It was at Barnard that Margaret Mead first discovered anthropology when she took a course with Franz Boas. In 1929 Mead received her Ph.D. from Colombia University.
Margaret Mead did her first field studies in the South Pacific. Her book, Coming of Age in Samoa, published in 1928, was a study of Samoan adolescent girls in contrast to American adolescent females. Her work found that culture, not genetics, influenced personality.
Over the years Margaret Mead studied many South Pacific cultures. Her work included sex roles and child rearing practices and their effect on cultures. Mead’s studies confirmed her belief that people of different societies can learn from each other.
Margaret Mead authored or co-authored over forty books and hundreds of articles. She received twenty-eight honorary degrees and was associated with the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1926 until the time of her death. Mead also lectured extensively and was a professor of anthropology at Colombia University.
Margaret Mead died on November 15, 1978 from cancer. Following her death, she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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