'A Biography of Margaret Mead'

'Margaret Mead, she was born Dec. 16, 1901, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. and died Nov. 15, 1978, tonic York, N.Y. Margaret was the daughter of Edward Sherwood Mead, a professor of finance at the Wharton indoctrinate of the University of Pennsylvania, and her mother, Emily (Fogg) Mead, was a sociologist. She was the oldest of flipper children. She was a fine-tune of Barnard College and received her Ph.D. from capital of S awayh Carolina University in 1929. She became the about famous anthropologist in the world. Through her overwork people intimate about anthropology and its holistic vision of the valet species. Frank Boas was iodine of the original partners in her breeding. Mr. Boas was a boyfriend anthropologist. He matte that Margaret would bring a fresh sense of smell into culture d oneness a cleaning womans mind. Mr. Boas ceaselessly cogitate and worked with men in his studies. He felt that Mead would be a hot candidate to amass the information from childlike wo man because Mead was a young egg-producing(prenominal) also. Boas sent Margaret to a remote island to assume the Samoa adolescent feminines in the mid 1920s.\nThis was one of Margaret Meads first studies the adolescents in Samoa. She nidused on characteristics of young females. This oeuvre resulted in her first set aside Coming of ripen in Samoa. Her think behind the study was to discover whether adolescence was a universally traumatic and stressful date due to biologic factors or whether the amaze of adolescence depended on ones heathen procreation. The one focus was to see if the female adolescent reactions to life were from culture upbringing or were they genetic. nature versus nature. When Margaret arrived to the island, she realized she would hire to discipline the phrase. She knew she would already stand out as the westerner. She treasured to get release of the interpreter and conk out into the culture as much as possible to learn the proper ways. Mead wor n-out(a) countless hours and long time learning the language before submersion herself into the Samoa village.\nMead foun... '