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Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978
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- Bateson, Margaret, 1901-1978
- Fortune, Margaret, 1901-1978
- Mid, Margaret, 1901-1978
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Dates of existence
1901-1978
History
American anthropologist Margaret Mead was born in Philidelphia in 1901. She was a prolific author and public speaker, best known for her work on people of the Pacific, in particular her first book Coming of age in Samoa (1928). She was a correspondent of Australian anthropologist Caroline Tennant-Kelly
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Authority record identifier
US DLC 78093416; AU NLA 35150692
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Full
Dates of creation, revision and deletion
Revised, FF, 16-Jun-2020
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Sources
Clifford Geertz (1989). Margaret Mead 1901-1978: a biographical memoir, Washington D.C.: National Academy of Sciences. Accessed online 16-Jun-2020.
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Revised with other forms of name, history, authority record identifiers and sources, FF, 16-Jun-2020.