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Margaret Mead

(1901 - 1978)
  5' 0"
  1.52 m

 

  Margaret Mead sitting between two Samoan girls, ca. 1926.

Margaret Mead -- Wikipedia

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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.”

"Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else."

• Biography
  
  
  • Celebration of Women Anthropologists
    • Margaret Mead
    • Ruth Fulton Benedict
  • Margaret Mead -- Internet Manu'a, American Samoa
  • Margaret Mead -- NNDB
  • Margaret Mead -- Mankato State University
  • Margaret Mead -- Wikipedia
  • Margaret Mead -- Women in American History, Encyclopaedia Brittanica
  • Margaret Mead, 1901-1978 -- National Women's Hall of Fame
  • Margaret Mead, 1901-1978 -- Tarraugh Flaherty, Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society
  • Margaret Mead - Anthropology: Coming of Age in Samoa -- age-of-the-sage.org
  • The Margaret Mead Centennial: 2001
    • Mead Resources: Books, Films, Archives
      • Archives
      • MEAD/BATESON FILMS
  • Margaret Mead: Early Pioneer of the Sexual Revolution
  • The National Women's Hall of Fame

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• Videos
  
  
  • "Coming of Age: Margaret Mead,"
    from the Strangers Abroad series (52 min., 1990)
    
    
  • Margaret Mead and Samoa
    (51 min., 1988)

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• Other WebSites
  
  
• The correspondence between Margaret Mead and Franz Boas exchanged during Mead’s 1925-26 Samoan research project (and related material)
  
  
• The Margaret Mead Centenial: 2001 -- The Institute for Intercultural Studies
  
  
  • Archives
  • Audiotapes of Margaret Mead interviews, lectures and speeches
  • Biography
  • Books by and about Mead
    • Biographical Books about Mead
    • Books about Mead and her work
    • Books by Margaret Mead (and coauthored)
    • For Young Readers
  • Continuing Work in Mead's Research Sites
  • Films and Archives Related to Mead
  • Mead / Bateson Films

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• Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture -- Library of Congress
  
  
• Margaret Mead, Derek Freeman . . . and the Samoans -- Stan Strain
  
  
• Margaret Mead at New York's American Museum of Natural History -- Treasures, American Museum of Natural History
  • Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival
    
    
• "Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa and Boasian Culturalism: A Brief Report -- Brief Article," Skeptical Inquirer, Nov, 2000 -- Derek Freeman
  • James Cote and Paul Shankman Respond
    
    
• Margaret Mead's Legacy: Continuing Conversations -- Barnard Center for Research on Women
  • Recommended Reading
  • Resources & Links
    
    
• Margaret Mead: Anthropologist -- sixth grade lesson plan by Jennifer Keeler
  
  
• http://www.meadspecial.org/
  
  
• Quotations -- About.com
  
  
• Tribute To Greatness -- Women's International Center

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• Articles
  
  

• Blackwell, Matthew. 2018. How the Science Wars Ruined the Mother of Anthropology. Quillette, 11 April 2018. Accessed February 12, 2020. https://quillette.com/2018/04/11/science-wars-ruined-mother-anthropology/.
  
  
• "Christian Faith and Technical Assistance," Margaret Mead, Christianity and Crisis, January 1955.
  
  
• "For God’s Sake, Margaret: Conversation with Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead," Stewart Brand, CoEvolutionary Quarterly, June 1976, Issue no. 10, pp. 32-44.
  
  
• "Modern Marriage," Margaret Mead, The Nation, October 31, 1953.
  
  
• "THE NEED FOR TEACHING ANTHROPOLOGY IN NORMAL SCHOOLS AND TEACHERS' COLLEGES," Margaret Mead, School and Society, V. 26 (July-December, 1927), pp. 466-68.