Anthropologist Margaret Mead said the first sign of civilization in an ancient culture is a femur that had been broken and then healed. She theorized that in the animal kingdom, if you break your leg, ...

Margaret Mead (1901-78) taught generations of Americans about the value of looking carefully and openly at other cultures to better understand the complexities of being human. Scientist, explorer, ...

Series preface / William O. Beeman -- Introduction / Robert B. Textor -- Twenty-five writings and lectures / Margaret Mead -- 1943 : the family in the future -- 1945 : human differences and world ...

Pioneering anthropologist Margaret Mead came of age in a time of enormous change and uncertainty. In the aftermath of World War I, as technologies like the radio and automobile began to take hold, ...

Derek Freeman, who helped modernize anthropology when he challenged Margaret Mead’s famous 1920s studies of adolescent sexuality in Samoa, has died. He was 84. Freeman, an emeritus professor of ...

Feminist anthropology fights for public voice in a new era. By signing up, you confirm that you are over the age of 16 and agree to receive occasional promotional ...

In 1968, when I was 13, I read Coming of Age in Samoa, by Margaret Mead. Her landmark 1928 study of adolescence had just been reissued as a 95-cent paperback for the counterculture generation. The ...

Just how far should scholars go in debunking intellectual opponents? Is persistence, to the point of ignoring one’s own pursuits, a sign of mental instability? The case of Derek Freeman, the ...

In Tripping on Utopia, historian Benjamin Breen writes about Mead's early research into psychedelic substances — and how it led to secret CIA... How Margaret Mead's research into utopias helped usher ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of American anthropologist Margaret Mead's birth. Her groundbreaking studies and down-to-earth style made the academic discipline of anthropology accessible to ...