Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist. She was an author and speaker in the mass media in the 1960s and 1970s. She was President of the American Advancement for the Association of Sciences in 1975.
Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture. As an academic, she was often controversial. Her reports about attitudes toward sex in the South Pacific and Southeast Asian culture traditions influenced the 1960s sexual revolution.
Mead was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She died from pancreatic cancer in New York City.
Publications by Mead.
Note: See also "Margaret Mead: The Complete Bibliography 1925–1975", Joan Gordan, ed., The Hague: Mouton.