Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, who was frequently a featured author and speaker in the mass media throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor degree at Barnard College in New York City, and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. She was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture and a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Mead was married three times. Her first husband (1923–1928) was American Luther Cressman, a theology student at the time. Her second husband was New Zealander Reo Fortune, a Cambridge graduate (1928–1935). Her third and longest-lasting marriage (1936–1950) was to the British Anthropologist Gregory Bateson with whom she had a daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.

Books

• As a sole author

Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) Growing Up In New Guinea (1930) The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe (1932) Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935 And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (1942) Male and Female (1949) New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation in Manus, 1928–1953 (1956) People and Places (1959; a book for young readers) Continuities in Cultural Evolution (1964) Culture and Commitment (1970) The Mountain Arapesh: Stream of events in Alitoa (1971) Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years (1972; autobiography)[41]

• As editor or coauthor

Cultural Patterns and Technical Change, editor (1953) Primitive Heritage: An Anthropological Anthology, edited with Nicholas Calas (1953) An Anthropologist at Work, editor (1959, reprinted 1966; a volume of Ruth Benedict's writings) The Study of Culture At A Distance, edited with Rhoda Metraux, 1953 Themes in French Culture, with Rhoda Metraux, 1954 The Wagon and the Star: A Study of American Community Initiative co-authored with Muriel Whitbeck Brown, 1966 A Rap on Race, with James Baldwin, 1971 A Way of Seeing, with Rhoda Metraux, 1975

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