ANTHROPOLOGIST

Margaret Mead

1901 - 1978

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Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College of Columbia University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia. Mead served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975. Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Mead is the 8th most popular anthropologist, the 723rd most popular biography from United States (down from 611th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular American Anthropologist.

Margaret Mead is most famous for her work in cultural anthropology. She was one of the first anthropologists to study different cultures around the world. Mead's most famous work is "Coming of Age in Samoa" which she published in 1928.

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS

Among anthropologists, Margaret Mead ranks 8 out of 93. Before her are Bronisław Malinowski, Jane Goodall, James George Frazer, Edward Burnett Tylor, Lewis H. Morgan, and A. L. Kroeber. After her are Ruth Benedict, Franz Boas, Paul Broca, Gregory Bateson, Clifford Geertz, and Eugène Dubois.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Margaret Mead ranks 39. Before her are Simon Kuznets, Hugo Gunckel Lüer, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Princess Sophie of Hohenberg, Henning von Tresckow, and Salvatore Quasimodo. After her are Andrey Vlasov, Robert Bresson, Arthur Liebehenschel, José Leandro Andrade, Nadezhda Alliluyeva, and Jascha Heifetz. Among people deceased in 1978, Margaret Mead ranks 21. Before her are Adolf Dassler, Vincent du Vigneaud, Jack L. Warner, Anastas Mikoyan, Ricardo Zamora, and Umberto Nobile. After her are John Cazale, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Kurt Student, Ronnie Peterson, Willy Messerschmitt, and Jomo Kenyatta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Margaret Mead ranks 723 out of 20,380. Before her are William Holden (1918), Harvey Cushing (1869), William Halsey Jr. (1882), Gwen Stefani (1969), Tony Lip (1930), and Jack Kilby (1923). After her are Martin Landau (1928), Francis Fukuyama (1952), James Caan (1940), Donna Summer (1948), Frederick Chapman Robbins (1916), and Sidney Sheldon (1917).

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Among ANTHROPOLOGISTS In United States

Among anthropologists born in United States, Margaret Mead ranks 3. Before her are Lewis H. Morgan (1818), and A. L. Kroeber (1876). After her are Ruth Benedict (1887), Clifford Geertz (1926), Marvin Harris (1927), Edward T. Hall (1914), Ann Dunham (1942), Marshall Sahlins (1930), Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857), David Graeber (1961), and Edwin H. Colbert (1905).

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