# Margaret Mead

> She walked into remote villages with a notebook and came back with arguments that exploded American certainties about sex, adolescence, and what it meant to be male or female — then spent decades as the one anthropologist Middle America actually listened to.

*American anthropologist (1901-1978)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Academic ([Wikidata](https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631))
- **Category:** Academics
- **Country:** United States
- **Born:** 1901-12-16
- **Died:** 1978-11-15
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** female

## Bio

Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa in 1928, a study of adolescence and sexuality that made her famous at twenty-six. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies followed in 1935, dismantling assumptions about gender through fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. She ranged widely after that — the Omaha people, Manus, Bali, even an ethnography of American life written to rally support for World War II — and became curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1946. By mid-century she was anthropology's most audible public voice, writing a monthly Redbook column and appearing regularly in mass media. Her reports on sexual attitudes in the South Pacific fed directly into the 1960s revolution, which made her a hero to some and a target for conservatives. She died in 1978, her fieldwork still the subject of sharp academic debate, her influence on how Americans thought about culture impossible to miss.

## Fame
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