Margaret Mead

Mead, Margaret (1901–78), U.S. cultural anthropologist known for Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), Growing Up in New Guinea (1930), the Mountain Arapesh (3 vols., 1938–49), and Male and Female (1949), among other works. Her autobiography, Blackberry Winter, appeared in 1972. She was adjunct professor of anthropology at Columbia Univ. after 1954, and was associated with New York's American Museum of Natural History from 1926 until her death.

See also: Anthropology.