Anthropologist Margaret Mead said the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture is a femur that had been broken and then healed. She theorized that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, ...

Margaret Mead (1901-78) taught generations of Americans about the value of looking carefully and openly at other cultures to better understand the complexities of being human. Scientist, explorer, ...

Series preface / William O. Beeman -- Introduction / Robert B. Textor -- Twenty-five writings and lectures / Margaret Mead -- 1943 : the family in the future -- 1945 : human differences and world ...

Pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead came of age in a time of enormous change and uncertainty. In the aftermath of World War I, as technologies like the radio and automobile began to take hold, ...

pt. 1: Search, 1920-1930 / Margaret Mead ; The vision in Plains culture ; A matter for the field worker in folklore ; Cups of clay ; Counters in the game ; The uses of cannibalism ; Selections from ...

Reading Margaret Mead’s Coming of Age in Samoa was my introduction, not only to the concept of culture, but to the critique of culture -- ours. Before 1961, when I read Coming of Age in an ...

Derek Freeman, who helped modernize anthropology when he challenged Margaret Mead’s famous 1920s studies of adolescent sexuality in Samoa, has died. He was 84. Freeman, an emeritus professor of ...

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Freeman also participated in the making of a 1988 documentary, Margaret Mead and Samoa, which included an interview with one of Mead’s original informants, Fa’apua’a, who said, in the film’s dramatic ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of American anthropologist Margaret Mead's birth. Her groundbreaking studies and down-to-earth style made the academic discipline of anthropology accessible to ...