Historical Development Anthropology Blog - Margaret Mead

Wyatt Quillin

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3 September 2021

Margaret Mead

    Margaret Mead was an anthropologist born in December 1901 who was extremely famous for her work on the people of Oceania. She graduated from Colombia University with a Ph.D. and in 1929 she started to gather data for her most well-known book "Coming of Age in Samoa". She was very interested in "primitive" peoples who didn't live in modern societies. This meant that they had spent centuries evolving in a way different from our "modern" selves. She was a strong believer in observing to gather data and spent a long time with the people of Oceana, watching how they lived and gathering data for her book. She was especially fascinated with more complex things in these societies like gender and race relations, sex relations, and other similar topics. She made a total of 26 trips to the Pacific, observing 6 different peoples. Mead was also an assistant curator at The Museum of Natural History in New York. She was also awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979, after her death. Margaret Mead's work was very important to the field of anthropology and allowed for more public understanding of the subject. 


https://www.britannica.com/biography/Margaret-Mead 


https://www.biography.com/scholar/margaret-mead

 

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