What is Margaret Mead?
{{Infobox person | name = Margaret Mead | image = Margaret Mead (1901-1978).jpg | caption = Mead in 1950 | birth_date = {{birth date|1901|12|16}} | birth_place = [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania, US | death_date = {{death date and age|1978|11|15|1901|12|16}} | death_place = New York City, US | alma_mater = {{ublist | [[Barnard College]] | [[Columbia University]]}} | occupation = [[Anthropologist]] | awards = [[Kalinga Prize]] (1970) | spouse = {{ublist|{{marriage|[[Luther Cressman]]|1923|1928|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Reo Fortune]]|1928|1935|end=div}}|{{marriage|[[Gregory Bateson]]|1936|1950|end=div}}}} | children = {{nowrap|[[Mary Catherine Bateson|Mary C. Bateson]] (born 1939)}} }} '''Margaret Mead''' (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an [[United States|American]] [[Anthropology|cultural anthropologist]]. She was an [[author]] and [[speaker]] in the [[mass media]] in the 1960s and 1970s.<ref>{{cite report|title=Margaret Mead as Cultural Commentator|publisher=The Library of Congress|url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mead/oneworld-comment.html|access-date=Dec 19, 2020}}</ref> She was President of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences in 1975.<ref>{{cite web|title=AAAS Presidents|publisher=AAAS.org|url=https://www.aaas.org/leadership/presidents|access-date=Dec 19, 2020}}</ref> Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and [[Western culture]]. As an [[academy|academic]], she was often [[controversy|controversial]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Margaret Mead|publisher=Scientific American|url=https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/margaret-meads-bashers-owe-her-an-apology|access-date=Dec 19, 2020}}</ref> Her reports about attitudes toward sex in the [[South Pacific]] and [[Southeast Asian]] culture traditions influenced the 1960s [[sexual revolution]]. Mead was born in [[Philadelphia]], Pennsylvania. She died from [[pancreatic cancer]] in [[New York City]]. ==Publications by Mead== Note: See also ''Margaret Mead: The Complete Bibliography 1925–1975'', Joan Gordan, ed., T