Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. At her death in 1978, she was the most famous anthropologist in the world and one of the…
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Margaret Mead
For 50 years, Margaret Mead told Americans how cultures worked, and Americans listened. At her death in 1978, she was the most famous anthropologist in the world and one of the best-known women in America. While serving as a curator at the American Museum of Natural History and as a professor of anthropology at Columbia University, she published dozens of books and hundreds of articles, scholarly and popular, on topics ranging from adolescence to atomic energy, Polynesian kinship networks to kindergarten, national morale to marijuana.
Margaret Mead: A Twentieth-Century Faith introduces a side of its subject that She had amply achieved her goal, as she described it to an interviewer in 1975, To have lived long enough to be of some use.As befits her prominence, Mead has had many biographers, but there is a curious hole at the center of these accounts: Mead's faith.