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American cultural anthropologist (–)

"Margaret Bateson" redirects here. For the British journalist and activist, see Margaret Heitland.

Not to be confused with the British anthropologist Margaret Read.

Margaret Mead (December 16, – November 15, ) was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the s and the s.^[1]

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 ^[2]

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 s sexual revolution.^[4] She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within the context o