![]() ![]() ![]() Her father, Edward Sherwood Mead, was a professor of finance at Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania), and her mother, Emily Mead, was a sociologist by profession. She was the eldest child among her family of five children. Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA on 16th December 1901, and raised in the town of Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, CIRCA 1998: a postage stamp printed in USA showing an image of anthropologist Margaret Mead, circa 1998. She was also recognized for her work on the rights of women, sexual ethnicity, pollution, child-rearing, drug abuse, interracial relations, and world hunger. She is very well known for her work on non-literate people, especially in different regards of psychology and culture-the influence of their surroundings on their sexual behaviour, social standings, and natural character. Margaret Mead was a famous American anthropologist, and her fame was a result of her thriving personality, outspokenness, and the quality of her scientific work. ![]()
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