Margaret Mead
First Name: Margaret
Last Name: Mead
Date of Birth: 1901.12.16
Birthplace: Philadelphia, PA
Date of Death: 1978.11.15
Place of Death: New York, NY
Nationality: American
Occupation: anthropologist
She wrote more than 40 books, many of which are among the classics of the 20th Century, including Coming of Age in Samoa (1928), Growing up in New Guinea (1930), Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935) and Male and Female (1949). She was married and divorced thrice and had a daughter with her last husband – the well-known biologist and anthropologist Gregory Bateson – who wrote her parents’ biography in 1984.
Sibylle Duda
Picture, biography, and list of sources in: Pusch/Gretter, margaret mead Berühmte Frauen, 2 Vols
