Margaret+Mead

In the photo above is Margaret Mead www.webster.edu
 * __Margaret Mead__**

Mead was born in Philadelphia on December 18, 1901. She was the oldest of four children and both of her parents were educators. Both of her grandfathers were dead before her birth and she didn't really like her grandmother. She had great fondness for her paternal grandmother. Along with her mom, these were two women were the most supportive and influential people in her life.

Margaret Mead was a distinguished anthropologist, an intellectual and a scientist. She is the author of numerous books on primitive societies and she also wrote about many contemporary issues. Some of the areas in which she was prominent were education, ecology, the women's movement, the bomb, and student uprisings.

Margaret's first major of work was "Coming of Age in Samoa", it became a best seller.

Some of Mead's other books were "Growing Up in New Guinea" and "Sex and Temperament in three Primitive societies."

Mead earned her Bachelors of Arts degree in Sociology at Barnard College in new York. She then went on to Columbia University for her Masters and Ph.D. Following that she earned many degrees and was a member of the American Academy on Arts and Letters.

She also taught at Columbia University, New York University, Emory University, Yale University, The New School for Social Research, University of Cincinnati, and The Menninger Clinic. In 1965, she founded the urban anthropology department at N.Y.U. and in 1968 she founded the anthropology department at Fordham University.

At one time Mead was the President of each of the following prestigious organizations:

-American Anthropological Association -Anthropological Film Institute, -Scientists Institute for Public Information -Society for Applied Anthropology.