Margaret Mead

Profession: Cultural Anthropologist

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Biography: A popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture, she was a respected and often controversial academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures shaped the 1960s sexual revolution.

Born: December 16, 1901
Birthplace: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Generation: Greatest Generation
Chinese Zodiac: Ox
Star Sign: Sagittarius

Died: November 15, 1978 (aged 76)
Cause of Death: Pancreatic cancer