Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
Margaret Meadwas an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 December 1901
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
safety people earth-day
EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
world tribes our-family
You can no longer save your family, tribe or nation. You can only save the whole world.
generations young knows
there are now no elders who know more than the young themselves about what the young are experiencing.
photography moving training
Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)
views vision culture
Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.
motherhood fatherhood facts
Motherhood is a biological fact, while fatherhood is a social invention.
water lasts would-be
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
grandparent humans human-beings
I suddenly realized that through no act of my own I had become biologically related to a new human being.
grandmother hands voice
Through a grandmother's voice and hands the end of life is known at the beginning.
second-chance grandparent anxiety
Grandparents are given a second chance to enjoy parenthood with fewer of its tribulations and anxieties.
beautiful grief loss
Mourning has become unfashionable in the United States. The bereaved are supposed to pull themselves together as quickly as possible and to reweave the torn fabric of life. ... we do not allow ... for the weeks and months during which a loss is realized - a beautiful word that suggests the transmutation of the strange into something that is one's own.
smell
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
holy-days earth-day historical
Earth Day is the first holy day...and is devoted to the harmony of nature... The celebration offends no historical calendar, yet it transcends them all.
spouse communicate persons
There is no lonelier person than the one who lives with a spouse with whom he or she cannot communicate.