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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
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.