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Margaret Mead

1901 - 1978
Cultural Anthropology

Personal Information

Born: 1901

Died: 1978

Professional Life

Field of Study: Cultural Anthropology

Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic.[3] Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution.[4] She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within the context of Western cultural traditions.