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.