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Margaret Mead
Mead, Margaret
Mead, Margaret (1901–78) An American cultural anthropologist and student of Ruth
Benedict. She argued that personality patterns were culturally rather than biologically determined. Her celebrated
Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) has been attacked by
sociobiologists. It was based on rather insubstantial fieldwork and could be reassessed for reasons which do not discredit her discipline. She pioneered a critical study of
gender in
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935). Her many field trips included the South Pacific Islands, New Guinea, and Bali, and are vividly described in the autobiographical
Blackberry Winter (1972). She popularized
social anthropology, partly by challenging
ethnocentrism in the
dominant ideology of the United States. She was marginalized by what she saw as the male world of academia, and remained attached to New York City's American Museum of Natural History, moving from assistant to curator. See also
CULTURE AND PERSONALITY SCHOOL.
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Margaret Mead vs. Tony Soprano : Feminist anthropology fights for public voice in a new era.
Magazine article from: The Nation; 5/21/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Chicago from the recent Margaret Mead Legacy conference...from public voice. Mead became a popular...media firestorm. Margaret Mead and Samoa is...culture than were Mead's young female...Rightist politics. Margaret Mead and Samoa provided...
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The fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead: a historical analysis of her Samoan research. (Anthropology and History).
Magazine article from: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute; 3/1/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...DEREK. The fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead: a historical analysis of her...cloth) The fateful hoaxing of Margaret Mead is Derek Freeman's last...desperate, attempt to persuade us that Margaret Mead was seriously misled by her...
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The Margaret Mead Vendetta, Round Two.(Review)
Magazine article from: World and I; 5/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Freeman's most recent attack on Margaret Mead's integrity and the validity...Book Info:THE FATEFUL HOAXING OF MARGARET MEAD A Historical Analysis of Her...publication of The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead represents a second volley...
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The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis of her Samoan Research / Malinowski's Kiriwina: Fieldwork Photography 1915-1918
Magazine article from: The Australian Journal of Anthropology; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead: A Historical Analysis...an intimate friend of Mead during the Samoan fieldwork...affirmed that she had hoaxed Mead. Freeman, after more...the foundation of both Margaret Mead's career and the...
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Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict: The Kinship of Women.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...34.95 hardcover. Margaret Mead, next to Eleanor Roosevelt...ability of individuals like Mead and Benedict to love both...lesbian orientation." But Mead had a child with her third...Vincent Millay, whom Margaret greatly admired, "described...
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Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy: Scholarship, Empire and the South Pacific.
Magazine article from: Oceania; 12/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...anthropology in general and of Margaret Mead in particular. I had...triggered by Freeman's Margaret Mead and Samoa. With...a contribution to the Mead-Freeman controversy...editors of Confronting the Margaret Mead Legacy make it clear...
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The Fateful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead:A Historical Analysis of Her Samoan Research.(Review)
Magazine article from: Oceania; 12/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...279. Price: US $24. Derek Freeman's latest book, The Fareful Hoaxing of Margaret Mead, is a follow-up of his previous book on Margaret Mead, Margaret Mead and Samoa. The Making and Unmaking of on Anthropological Myth. This earlier...
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Margaret Mead: a life.(Young Adult Review)
Magazine article from: The Nation; 10/27/1984; ; 700+ words
; ...only I could give a lecture." Margaret Mead's public life was, as these...questions Jane Howard poses in Margaret Mead: A Life, as she follows...with the Library of Congress after Margaret Mead's death; others will become...
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Myth mongering.(To Cherish the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 8/28/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...the Life of the World: The Selected Letters of Margaret Mead, edited by Margaret Caffrey and Patricia Francis (Basic, 429 pp., $29.95) [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] MARGARET MEAD, the most famous anthropologist of the 20th...
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Margaret Mead, Gregory Bateson, and Highland Bali: Fieldwork Photographs of Bayung Gede, 1936-1939. (Reviews).(Review)
Magazine article from: Oceania; 9/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...collaboration of Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead in Bali over several years in the...Analysis (by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead, 1942, with 759 photographs...Study of Balinese Childhood (by Margaret Mead and Frances Cooke MacGregor...
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Mead, Margaret
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
Margaret Mead Born: December 16, 1901Philadelphia...origins, distribution, and relationships) Margaret Mead developed the field of culture and...medicine, and public policy. Early life Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania...
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Margaret Mead
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Margaret Mead The American anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901-1978) developed the field of culture and personality...of culture into education, medicine, and public policy. Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia, Pa., on Dec. 16, 1901...
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Mead, Margaret (1901-1978)
Dictionary entry from: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
MEAD, MARGARET (1901-1978) Margaret Mead, an American anthropologist...tests," she wrote. As a result, Mead's observations relate only to manifest...Gordan, Joan (Ed.). (1976). Margaret Mead: The complete bibliography...
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Mead, Margaret (1901–1978)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood in History and Society
Mead, Margaret (1901 – 1978) Margaret Mead was born into an academic family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on December 16, 1901. She attended Barnard College and received her doctorate in cultural anthropology, working with Ruth...
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Mead, Margaret 1901-1978
Book article from: American Decades
MEAD, MARGARET 1901-1978 Anthropologist A Classic Study Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa...came to the conclusion that Mead's research had been shallow...Sources: Derek Freeman, Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making...
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