Mead,Margaret

Mead,Margaret
Mead, Margaret. 1901-1978.
American anthropologist noted for her landmark studies of adolescence and sexual behavior in primitive cultures. Her books include Coming of Age in Samoa (1928).

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  • Mead, Margaret — born Dec. 16, 1901, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. died Nov. 15, 1978, New York, N.Y. U.S. anthropologist. She studied under Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict at Columbia University and did fieldwork in Samoa before completing her Ph.D. (1929). The first and …   Universalium

  • MEAD, Margaret — (1901 1978)    highly influential American ANTHROPOLOGIST. Her first study was made in Samoa, in 1925 1926 where she investigated the then fashionable topic of adolescence and extolled the virtues of pre marital sex. In recent years the validity… …   Concise dictionary of Religion

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  • Mead, Margaret — (1901 78) An American cultural anthropologist and student of Ruth Benedict . She argued that personality patterns were culturally rather than biologically determined. Her celebrated Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) has been attacked by… …   Dictionary of sociology

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  • Margaret Mead — Born December 16, 1901(1901 12 16) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Died November 15, 1978(1978 11 15) …   Wikipedia

  • Margaret Mead — (* 16. Dezember 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; † 15. November 1978 in New York) war eine US amerikanische Anthropologin und Ethnologin. Margaret Mead gilt als eine der entschiedensten Vertreterinnen de …   Deutsch Wikipedia

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  • Mead — Mead, Lake the largest ↑reservoir (=a lake where water is stored before it is supplied to people s houses) in the US, on the Colorado River behind the ↑Hoover Dam Mead 2 Mead, Margaret (1901 78) a US anthropologist, who studied the ways in which… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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