Margaret Mead

Quick Facts

Date Of Birth	Dec 16, 1901(1901-12-16)
Age	123
Date Of Death	November 15, 1978, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY
Country	United States
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Margaret Mead Biography

Margaret Mead is one of the most popular and richest Anthropologist who was born on December 16, 1901 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. As of June 1, 2023, Margaret has a net worth approximately $5 Million. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Jimmy Carter.

Anthropologist whose reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian culture amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Despite being a religious woman, she gained controversy for applying notions of human sexuality with western religion.

In 1959 she released the album An Interview With Margaret Mead, which covered the topics of morals and anthropology.

She married third husband Gregory Bateson in 1936.

Margaret Mead Net Worth

Margaret is one of the richest Anthropologist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Margaret Mead 's net worth $5 Million.

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Margaret Mead Husband

According to our records, Margaret Mead married to Gregory Bateson , Reo Fortune , Luther Cressman. As of January 12, 2023, Margaret Mead’s is not dating anyone.

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Facts & Trivia

Margaret Ranked on the list of most popular Anthropologist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Margaret Mead celebrates birthday on December 16 of every year.

What is Margaret Mead's theory?

Mead’s famous theory of imprinting found that children learn by watching adult behavior. A decade later, Mead qualified her nature vs. nurture stance somewhat in Male and Female (1949), in which she analyzed the ways in which motherhood serves to reinforce male and female roles in all societies.

What was Margaret Mead criticized for?

Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic. Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution.

What were the main findings of Margaret Mead's research?

Mead found a different pattern of male and female behavior in each of the cultures she studied, all different from gender role expectations in the United States at that time. She found among the Arapesh a temperament for both males and females that was gentle, responsive, and cooperative.

What is Margaret Mead's theory of adolescence?

Mead’s theory that adolescence was not biologically destined to be a time of storm and stress was said to have incubated moral relativism and the free- loving counterculture of the 1960s. The quarrel also enveloped anthropology.

What was Margaret Mead's most important contribution to our understanding

of gender?

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