Margaret Mead: References & Edit History
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Meadās life and work are described in Robert Cassidy, Margaret Mead: A Voice for the Century (1982); Jane Howard, Margaret Mead, a Life (1984, reissued 1990); and Mary Catherine Bateson, With a Daughterās Eye: A Memoir of Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson (1984, reissued 1994), written by her daughter. Lowell D. Holmes, Quest for the Real Samoa: The Mead/Freeman Controversy & Beyond (1987), examines the divergent results of Meadās and Freemanās studies.
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Article History
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| Add new Web site: Library of Congress - Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture. | Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Modified link of Web site: Library of Congress - Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture. | Sep 29, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - How Margaret Mead's research into utopias helped usher in the psychedelic era. | May 28, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Dec 12, 2025 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Nov 11, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Carnegie Corporation of New York - How Margaret Mead and Other Maverick Intellectuals Remade Cultural Anthropology. | Nov 04, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Hektoen International - Margaret Mead (1901Ā1978), controversial anthropologist pioneer. | Sep 13, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC Sounds - From Savage to Self - Coming of Age. | May 07, 2025 | ||
| Questions and answers added. | Feb 14, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: Academia - Margaret Mead and Cultural Studies: Introduction to The Study of Culture at a Distance, by Margaret Mead. | Jun 14, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: National Academy of Sciences - Margaret Mead. | Apr 30, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 26, 2024 | ||
| Expanded discussion of her work and added discussion of her personal life. | Feb 13, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: ConnecticutHistory.org - J. P. MorganĀs Connecticut Roots. | Sep 14, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Aug 04, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Simply Psychology - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Jun 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American National Biography - Margaret Mead. | Mar 01, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: The University of Chicago - Woman is a Rational Animal - Margaret Mead. | Sep 27, 2022 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Jan 04, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Good Therapy - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Apr 25, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 29, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 16, 2019 | ||
| Media added. | Jan 09, 2019 | ||
| Corrected display issue. | Dec 19, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: HistoryNet - Margaret Mead. | Feb 27, 2017 | ||
| Add new Web site: ExplorePAhistory.com - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Apr 16, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: United States History - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Apr 16, 2014 | ||
| Add new Web site: Pennsylvania Center for the Book - Margaret Mead. | Jul 08, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Fact Monster - People - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Aug 26, 2010 | ||
| Photograph added of Margaret Mead in her youth. | Jun 22, 2010 | ||
| Updated publication information for works by Margaret Mead that are cited in the text. | Jun 22, 2010 | ||
| Media added. | Jul 30, 2008 | ||
| Added new Web site: American Museum of Natural History - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Feb 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Pegasos - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Feb 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Women's Intellectual Contributions to the Study of Mind and Society - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Feb 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Institute for Intercultural Studies - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Feb 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Famous People - Mini-Curriculum Units - Lesson on Margaret Mead. | Feb 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: American Society for Cybernetics - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Feb 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Woman Anthropologist - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Feb 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Age of the Sage - Transmitting the Wisdoms of the Ages - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Feb 19, 2007 | ||
| Added new Web site: Anthropology Biography Web - Biography of Margaret Mead. | Feb 19, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 10, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Oct 13, 1999 |
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