Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her MA and PhD degrees from Columbia University. Mead served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975.

Published Works

• The Human Revolution [and Comments and Reply]
• An Investigation of the Thought of Primitive Children, with Special Reference to Animism.
• Some theoretical considerations on the problem of mother-child separation.
• Papers in Honor of Melville J. Herskovits: Socialization and Enculturation
• Male and Female
• Principles of Moral Building
• Food and Feeding in Occupied Territory
• Changing Styles of Anthropological Work
• Our Educational Emphases in Primitive Perspective
• The Swaddling Hypothesis: Its Reception
• SYSTEMIC MYCOSIS DUE TO MONILIA ALBICANS
• A Research Film Program in the Study of Changing Man [and Comments and Replies]
• The implications of culture change for personality development.
• Cultural Discontinuities and Personality Transformation
• More Comprehensive Field Methods
• Growing Up in New Guinea
• Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words
• Research on primitive children.
• The small conference
• Anthropology among the Sciences
• The Sepik as a Culture Area: Comment
• New Lives for Old; Cultural Transformation: Manus, 1928-1953
• Cultural Patterns and Technical Change
• And Keep Your Powder Dry An Anthropologist Looks at America.
• Public Opinion Mechanisms Among Primitive Peoples
• Social Change and Cultural Surrogates
• The primitive child.
• The Methodology of Racial Testing: Its Significance for Sociology
• The Contemporary American Family as an Anthropologist Sees It
• On the Implications for Anthropology of the Gesellilg Approach to Maturation
• The Manus of the Admiralty Islands.
• The Training of the Cultural Anthropologist
• Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples.
• The Role of the Individual in Samoan Culture.
• Ethnological Aspects of Aging
• The Arapesh of New Guinea.
• The Samoans.
• Working Mothers: And Their Children
• THE USE OF PRIMITIVE MATERIAL IN THE STUDY OF PERSONALITY
• Age patterning in personality development.
• : A Field Study in Siam of the Behavior and Social Relations of the Gibbon (Hylobates Lar) . R. C. Carpenter.
• The Rights of Primitive Peoples: Papua-New Guinea: A Crucial Instance
• Group Living as a Part of Intergroup Education Workshops
• Anthropologist and Historian: Their Common Problems
• Children's Play Style: Potentialities and Limitations of Its Use as a Cultural Indicator
• Changing significance of food
• Margaret Mead.
• The Originality of Milton Erickson
• Margaret Lowenfeld 1890–1973
• The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character.David Riesman
• Cybernetics
• ANTHROPOLOGY AND THE CLIMATE OF OPINION
• Mental health and the wider world.
• Visual Anthropology in a Discipline of Words
• Ruth Fulton Benedict 1887-1948
• III. Cultural Determinants
• The Underdeveloped and the Overdeveloped
• Women's Social Position
• Coming of Age in Samoa
• Professional Problems of Education in Dependent Countries
• Nursing: Primitive and Civilized
• Psychiatry and Ethnology
• Temperamental differences and sexual dimorphism
• What is happening to the American family?
• ... As seen by a social scientist
• World-Minded Education.
• Retrospects and prospects
• Problems of a war time society: II. The modification of pre-war patterns: 1. The cultural picture.
• Arctic Village.Robert Marshall
• Methods in Structural Linguistics. Zellig S. Harris
• ANTHROPOLOGICAL DATA ON THE PROBLEM OF INSTINCT
• Effects of Anthropological Field Work Models on Interdisciplinary Communication in the Study of National Character
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTORY REMARKS
• PANEL DISCUSSION
• Review of The coming of age.
• I. The Conference Process
• 3. The Evocation of Psychologically Relevant Responses in Ethnological Field Work
• A Reply to a Review of "Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies"
• : The Hopi Child . Wayne Dennis.
• : Patterns of Sexual Behavior . Clellan S. Ford, Frank A. Beach.
• : Sexual Behavior in American Society: An Appraisal of the First Two Kinsey Reports . Jerome Himelhoch, Sylvia Fleis Fava.
• The Institute for Intercultural Studies and Japanese Studies
• : Ta'u: Stability and Change in a Samoan Village . Lowell D. Holmes.
• : Six Cultures: Studies of Child Rearing . Beatrice B. Whiting.
• : The Concept of Freedom in Anthropology . David Bidney.
• : Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands . Robert I. Levy.
• : Culture and Behavior of the Sebei: A Study in Continuity and Adaptation . Walter Goldschmidt.
• AN OPEN LETTER FROM MARGARET MEAD: Anthropological Research Services Merit Support
• Cybernetics: Circular Causal and Feedback Mechanisms in Biological and Social Systems, Transactions of the Eighth Conference
• And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America.
• Environment and Education.
• War Need Not Mar Our Children
• Cultural Bases for Understanding Literature
• 76
• Women Can Help Apply Science to Human Problems
• Art and Reality: From the Standpoint of Cultural Anthropology
• A Rap on Race
• Coral Gardens and Their Magic
• Changing life patterns and the consciousness of the individual
• Impact of Biomedical Progress on Society and the Individual
• Beispiele grundlegender, primärer Rollen
• The immortality of man
• New forms of community in a pluralistic society
• Cherishing the life of the world
• Mental health: A moving target
• Spiritual issues in the problem of birth control
• Maturity and society
• A new look at the age of technology
• Women and the future of mankind
• Future Family
• Habitat: Building a global constituency
• TELEVISION, CHILDREN, ERRORS
• TV Effects: London View
• The cross-cultural approach to the study of personality.
• The Adolescent and His Family.
• The Concept of Culture and the Psychosomatic Approach.
• Culture and personality.
• Introduction (Optimum mental health).
• Bathing Babies in Three Cultures(Mead, Bateson)
• Childhood Rivalry in Bali and New Guinea (Mead, Bateson)
• Karba's First Years: A Study of Balinese Childhood (Mead, Bateson)
• Learning to Dance in Bali
• A Balinese Family
• First Days in the Life of a New Guinea Baby
• Review of Smoke from their fires: The life of a Kwakiutl chief.
• Review of The psychology of women: A psychoanalytic interrelation.
• Review of The politics of nonviolent action.
• Problems of Population Balance
• Back of Adolescence Lies Early Childhood
• Proof against Any Bomb
• Preparing Children for a World Society
• Uniqueness and Universality
• The Editorial page
• Crossing Cultural Barriers
• V TWENTIETH CENTURY FAITH AND HUMAN SURVIVAL
• Communications
• Report on Regional Conferences
• Valenge Women.Dora E. Earthy
• Rebel Destiny.Frances Herskovits , Melville Herskovits
• A Black Civilization: A Social Study of an Australian Tribe.W. Lloyd Warner
• Aboriginal Woman: Sacred and Profane.Phyllis M. Kaberry
• Customs and Mores
• Growing Up in the Black Belt: Negro Youth in the Rural South.Charles S. Johnson
• On Becoming a Kwoma: Teaching and Learning in a New Guinea Tribe.John M. Whiting
• A Scientific Theory of Culture and Other Essays.Bronislaw Malinowski
• The Destiny of Modern Woman in the Light of Papal Teaching.William B. Faherty
• Letters to the Editor
• Race: Individual and Collective Behavior.Edgar T. Thompson , Everett C. Hughes
• New Men of Papua: A Study in Culture Change.Robert F. Maher
• Cultural Relativism: Perspectives in Cultural Pluralism.Melville J. Herskovits , Frances Herskovits
• A Study of Abortion in Primitive Societies. A Typological, Distributional, and Dynamic Analysis of the Prevention of Birth in 400 Preindustrial Societies. George Devereux
• Book Reviews
• Man in Space
• Nursing—Primitive and Civilized
• SUMMARY AND RECOMMENDATIONS
• DISCUSSION
• ANTHROPOLOGY IN 1970
• COMMENTS FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGIST
• Review of The individual and his society.
• A rejoinder to Jules Henry's review of "Male and female."
• Review of Don't be afraid of your child.
• Review of Culture against man.
• From Black and White Magic to Modern Medicine
• The American People
• The Contribution of Anthropology to the Science of the Future
• Vicissitudes of the Study of the Total Communication Process
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• APPENDIX. Background of this study
• Anthropology and an Education for the Future
• : Rossel Island; An Ethnological Study . W. E. Armstrong.
• : Samoan Material Culture . Te Rangi Hiroa.
• A Reply to the Review of "Cooperation and Competition among Primitive Peoples"
• : Malay Fishermen: Their Peasant Economy . R. Firth.
• : Russian Assignment . Leslie C. Stevens.
• : The Lowenfeld Mosaic Test . Margaret Lowenfeld.
• Further Comment on Primitive Heritage by Mead and Calas: Rejoinder
• : Elite Communication in Samoa: A Study of Leadership . Felix M. Keesing, Marie M. Keesing.
• : Children of the Kibbutz . Melford E. Spiro.
• : Symposium on Evolution, Held at Duquesne University, April 4, 1959, in Commemoration of the Centenary of Charles Darwin's The Origin of Species . Frederick C. Bawden, Gottfried O. Lang, Andrew G. van Melsen, Cyril Vollert, Charles Darwin. ; Evolution and Christian Thought Today . Russell L. Mixter.
• : And the Poor Get Children: Sex, Contraception, and Family Planning in the Working Class . Lee Rainwater.
• : Bali: Studies in Life, Thought and Ritual . H. J. Franken.
• : Psychological Anthropology: Approaches to Culture and Personality . Francis L. K. Hsu.
• : National Character and National Stereotypes: A Trend Report Prepared for the International Union of Scientific Philosophy . H. C. J. Duijker, N. H. Frijda.
• Hazards Encountered in Publishing in Europe
• : Man and Society in Disaster . George W. Baker, Dwight W. Chapman.
• : The Widening World of Childhood: Paths toward Mastery . Lois Murphy.
• : Dema: Description and Analysis of Marind-Anim Culture (South New Guinea) . J. Van Baal.
• : Holy Ghost People . Blair Boyd.
• : Maori . Ans Westra, James Ritchie.
• : Race, Culture, and Evolution: Essays in the History of Anthropology . George W. Stocking, Jr..
• : Socialization: The Approach from Social Anthropology . Philip Mayer.
• : The Culture of Childhood: Child's-Eye Views of Society and Culture . Mary Ellen Goodman.
• : The Individual in Cultural Adaptation: A Study of Four East African Peoples . Robert B. Edgerton.
• : A Man Called Bee: Studying the Yanamamo. 1974 . Napoleon A. Chagnon, Timothy Asch.
• Appreciative Comment on Jacqueline Mithun's Article; Comment on Jacqueline Mithun, Bob Scholte
• Cultural Patterns and Technical Change
• Soviet Attitudes toward Authority
• Soviet and American Society: A Comparison
• Twentieth Century Faith: Hope and Survival
• Growing up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education
• Coming of Age in Samoa
• Cooperation and Competition among Primitive Peoples
• Primitive Heritage: An Anthropological Anthology
• Thèmes de "culture" de la France. Introduction à une étude de la communauté française
• Le fossé des générations
• Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap
• Growing up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education
• The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe
• Co-Operation and Competition among Primitive Peoples
• New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation, Manus, 1928-1953
• Essays in Polynesian Ethnology
• The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe
• Changing Patterns of Trust and Responsibility: The Need for New Canons of Professional Ethics
• The Social Responsibility of the Anthropologist: The Second Article in a Series on the Social Responsibility of Scholarship
• Coming of Age in Samoa. A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization.
• Studies in the Anthropology of Oceania and Asia.
• Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap.
• The Mountain Arapesh. I. An Importing Culture.
• Co-operation and Competition among Primitive Peoples.
• Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World.
• Soviet Attitudes toward Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Problems of Soviet Character.
• The Study of Culture at a Distance.
• Life Is With People. The Jewish Little-Town of Eastern Europe.
• Themes in French Culture: A Preface to a Study of French Community.
• New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation Manus, 1928-1953.
• Childhood in Contemporary Cultures.
• A Way of Seeing.
• Cultural Patterns and Technical Change.
• Male and Female.
• Soviet Attitudes Toward Authority.
• Continuities in Cultural Evolution.
• The English People on the Eve of Colonization: 1607-1630.
• American Character
• Growing Up in New Guinea
• An Inquiry Into the Question of Cultural Stability in Polynesia
• An Introduction to Samoan Custom.
• The Making of Modern New Guinea.
• Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis.
• New Lives for Old.
• Social Change in the South Pacific: Rarotonga and Aitutaki.
• Some Relations Between Cultural Anthropology and Sociometry
• Energy Changes Under Conditions of Cultural Change
• 174
• 34. Contemporary Anthropology
• 16
• 233. The Group as the Unit of Social Evolution
• Science and the Concept of Race.
• A Twi Relationship System.
• Ruth Benedict
• Coming of Age in Samoa.
• Tepoztlan: A Mexican Village.
• Nine Soviet Portraits.
• Faces in the Crowd: Individual Studies in Character and Politics.
• The Study of Culture at a Distance.
• Continuities in Cultural Evolution
• Continuities in Cultural Evolution
• Letters from the Field 1925-1975. Vol. 52
• Family
• Soviet Attitudes Towards Authority
• The Study of Culture At A Distance
• Primitive Heritage. An Anthropological Anthology
• New Lives for Old
• Effects of Anthropological Field Work Models on Interdisciplinary Communication in the Study of National Character
• Childhood in Contemporary Cultures
• Ciencia y concepto de raza
• La carreta y la estrella
• Experiencias personales y científicas de una antropóloga
• Soviet Attitudes toward Authority: An Interdisciplinary Approach in Problems of Soviet Character
• Soviet Attitudes toward Authority
• Ways to Deal with the Current Social Transformation
• Groping for World Order
• The Study of Culture at a Distance
• Excess and Restraint: Social Control among a New Guinea Mountain People
• An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict
• Anthropologie et glyphes
• Anthropology and American Civilization
• On the Institutionalized Rôle of Women and Character Formation
• Preface
• A New Framework for Studies of Folklore and Survivals

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