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<html> <head> <title>Margaret Mead</title> <meta name="googlebot" content="noodp"> <meta name="robots" content="noodp"> <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed" href="/silly-nndb-icon.png" /><style type="text/css">  </style></head> <body bgcolor=#ffffff> <center> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr><td valign=top><table width=550 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td bgcolor=white><table width="100%" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" background="/nndb.gif"> <tr> <td rowspan="2" align="left" valign="top"><a href="http://www.nndb.com/"><img src="/title.gif" width="260" height="50" border=0 alt="NNDB"></a></td> <td><table width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="6"> <tr align="center"> <td width="25%" nowrap>This is a beta version of NNDB</td> </tr> </table></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right" valign="middle"> <form action="http://search.nndb.com/search/nndb.cgi" method="get"> <input type="hidden" name="nndb" value="1"></input> Search: <select name="omenu"> <option value="unspecified" selected>All Names</option> <option value="living">Living people</option> <option value="dead">Dead people</option> <option value="bands">Band Names</option> <option value="books">Book Titles</option> <option value="movies">Movie Titles</option> <option value="fulltext">Full Text</option> </select> for <input name="query" value="" size=24 maxlength=96> <input type=submit value="Search"> </form></td> </tr> </table>        </td></tr><tr><td bgcolor=red height=2></td></tr><map name=fool><area coords="102,0,240,14" href="/people/017/000029927/bibliography/" alt="bibliography"></map><tr bgcolor=F0F0F0><td bgcolor=F0F0F0 style="padding: 0px 15px 15px 15px;"><img src="/red-profile-2.gif" align="right" height=15 width=240 border=0 usemap=#fool> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 width=100%><tr><td bgcolor=F0F0F0>Margaret Mead<img src="mead-2-sized.jpg" height=320 width=253 align=right hspace=10 vspace=10 alt="Margaret Mead">Born: <a href="/lists/868/000106550/" class=proflink>16-Dec</a>-<a href="/lists/900/000105585/" class=proflink>1901</a> Birthplace: <a href="/geo/659/000069452/" class=proflink>Philadelphia, PA</a> <a href="#FN1">[1]</a> Died: <a href="/lists/206/000106885/" class=proflink>15-Nov</a>-<a href="/lists/488/000106170/" class=proflink>1978</a> Location of death: <a href="/geo/631/000069424/" class=proflink>New York City</a> Cause of death: <a href="/lists/366/000069159/" class=proflink>Cancer - Pancreatic</a> Remains: Buried, Trinity Episcopal Church, Buckingham, PA Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: <a href="/lists/244/000069037/" class=proflink>Bisexual</a> Occupation: <a href="/lists/630/000096342/" class=proflink>Anthropologist</a>, <a href="/lists/199/000068992/" class=proflink>Activist</a>Nationality: United States Executive summary: Coming of Age in SamoaFor most of the 20th century, the most famous anthropologist in the world. Published studies on native Polynesian behavior (including Coming of Age in Samoa and Coming Up in New Guinea) that raised many eyebrows, particularly when it came to documenting the practice of casual sex. Derek Freeman's 1999 work, The fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A historical analysis of her Samoan research, analyzes Mead's findings and methods, though that work itself has come under criticism.<hr width=25% size=1 align=left><a name="FN1">[1] West Park Hospital, Philadelphia, PA. Father: Edward Sherwood Mead Mother: Emily Fogg Mead (b. 1871, d. 1950) Brother: Richard (b. 1903) Sister: Katharine (d. 1907, age 9 months) Sister: Elizabeth (b. 1909) Sister: Priscilla (b. 1911) Husband: Luther Sheeleigh Cressman (b. 1897, archaeol., m. 3-Sep-1923, div. 1928, d. 1994) Daughter: Mary Catherine Bateson Kassarjian (anthropologist) Husband: <a href="/people/169/000100866/">Gregory Bateson</a> (anthropologist, m. 1936, div. 1951, d. 4-Jul-1980) Husband: Reo Fortune (m. 1928, div. 1934) Girlfriend: <a href="/people/786/000097495/">Ruth Benedict</a>     University: <a href="/edu/673/000068469/">DePauw University (one year, 1919)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/693/000068489/">BS Anthropology, Barnard College (1923)</a>     University: <a href="/edu/477/000068273/">PhD, Columbia University (1929)</a>     Professor: <a href="/edu/518/000068314/">Visiting Lecturer, Vassar College (1939-41)</a>     Professor: <a href="/edu/477/000068273/">Adjuct Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University (1954-)</a>     Administrator: <a href="/edu/538/000068334/">Chairman, Social Science Division, Fordham University (1971-)</a>     <a href="/honors/482/000045347/">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> 1979 (posthumously)     <a href="/honors/867/000046729/">National Women's Hall of Fame</a> 1976     <a href="/org/283/000088019/">American Museum of Natural History</a> Asst. Curator of Ethnology (1926-)     <a href="/org/905/000082659/">World Federation for Mental Health</a> President (1956-57)     <a href="/org/903/000082657/">American Anthropological Association</a> President (1960)     <a href="/org/821/000055656/">National Research Council</a> Food Habits Committee (1942-45)     <a href="/org/766/000051613/">American Association for the Advancement of Science</a> President (1971) Author of books: Coming of Age in Samoa (<tt>1928</tt>, nonfiction) Growing Up in New Guinea (<tt>1930</tt>, nonfiction) The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe (<tt>1932</tt>, nonfiction) Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (<tt>1935</tt>, nonfiction) And Keep Your Powder Dry (<tt>1942</tt>) Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changin World (<tt>1949</tt>, nonfiction) People and Places (<tt>1959</tt>) Continuities in Cultural Evolution (<tt>1964</tt>, nonfiction) The Family (<tt>1965</tt>) Culture and Committment (<tt>1970</tt>, nonfiction) Blackberry Winter: A Memoir (<tt>1972</tt>, memoir) <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;">New! <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=29927"><img src="/woman.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=29927">Margaret Mead</a></td> </tr> </table> Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript. 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