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Essay on Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead was an American anthropologist, generally acknowledged for her studies of prehistoric societies and her contributions to communal anthropology. Mead was born in Philadelphia on December 16, 1901, and was educated at Barnard College and at Columbia University. In 1926 she became assistant curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, and she subsequently served as associate curator (1942-64) and as curator (1964-69). She was director of research in contemporary cultures at Columbia University from 1948 to 1950 and adjunct professor of anthropology there after 1954. In 1968 she was appointed full professor and head of the social science department in the Liberal Arts College of Fordham University at Lincoln Center in New York. (Howard, Jane (1984)
She also served on a variety of management and global commissions and was a divisive orator on contemporary social issues. Participating in more than a few field expeditions, Mead conducted extraordinary research in New Guinea, Samoa Islands, and Bali. Much of her work was dedicated to a study of patterns of child education in a range of cultures. She also analyzed a lot of problems in modern American society, mostly those distressing young people. Her interests were speckled, including childcare, teenage years, sexual behavior, and American character and society. A number of authorities stress the role of communal and civilizing traditions in personality development. In recounting the behavior of members of two New Guinea tribes, for example, the American anthropologist Margaret Mead demonstrated this cultural relationship. Although the tribes are of the same racial stock and live in the same area, one group is peaceful, friendly, and cooperative, whereas the other group is assertive, hostile, and competitive.
Mead is the author of many books on primal societies and she furthermore wrote about a lot of modern issues....
