Margaret Mead

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author cultural anthropologist human public intellectual

Margaret Mead was a pioneering American cultural anthropologist renowned for her studies of adolescence and gender roles in Pacific Island societies and for popularizing anthropology with the general public.

Statements (50)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	author → cultural anthropologist → human → public intellectual →
awardReceived	Presidential Medal of Freedom →
child	Mary Catherine Bateson →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1901-12-16 →
dateOfDeath	1978-11-15 →
educatedAt	Barnard College → Columbia University →
employer	American Museum of Natural History →
familyName	Mead →
fieldOfWork	Pacific Island societies → adolescence → cultural anthropology → gender roles →
givenName	Margaret →
influenced	cultural anthropology → feminist theory → public understanding of anthropology →
influencedBy	Franz Boas → Ruth Benedict →
languageSpoken	English →
mannerOfDeath	natural causes →
memberOf	American Anthropological Association →
notableFor	popularizing anthropology to the general public → studies of adolescence in Samoa → studies of gender roles in Pacific Island cultures →
notableWork	Coming of Age in Samoa → Growing Up in New Guinea → Male and Female → Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies →
occupation	anthropologist → lecturer → writer →
placeOfBirth	Pennsylvania → Philadelphia → United States of America →
placeOfDeath	New York → New York City → United States of America →
positionHeld	curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History → president of the American Anthropological Association →
religion	Episcopal Church →
sexOrGender	female →
spouse	Gregory Bateson → Luther Cressman → Reo Fortune →
workLocation	New York City →

Referenced by (15)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Coming of Age in Samoa → Growing Up in New Guinea → Male and Female → Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies →	author
Franz Boas → Franz Boas → Ruth Benedict →	influenced
American historical particularism → Boasian school of anthropology →	associatedWith
Gregory Bateson → Reo Fortune →	spouse
Gregory Bateson →	coAuthor
Mead →	hasNotableBearer
Reo Fortune →	influencedBy
Male and Female →	workOf