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
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Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible
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Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate
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A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t
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The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth
passionate revolution problem
Don't depend on governments or corporations to fix problems. Social revolutions are led by passionate individuals and that's what makes the difference.
love-is sexuality monogamy
Monogamous heterosexual love is probably one of the most difficult, complex and demanding of human relationships.
manners
Manners, really good ones, make it possible to live with almost anyone, gracefully and pleasantly ...
cities childhood way
The way in which each human infant is transformed into the finished adult, into the complicated individual version of his city and his century is one of the most fascinating studies open to the curious minded.
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People are still encouraged to marry as if they could count on marriage being for life, and at the same time they are absorbing a knowledge of the great frequency of divorce.
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In the presence of grandparent and grandchild, past and future merge in the present.
brain attention world
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.
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.
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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)