'A Biography of Margaret Mead'

'Margaret Mead, she was natural Dec. 16, 1901, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. and died Nov. 15, 1978, New York, N.Y. Margaret was the daughter of Edward Sherwood Mead, a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and her mother, Emily (Fogg) Mead, was a sociologist. She was the oldest of five children. She was a graduate of Barnard College and bearard her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1929. She became the most historied anthropologist in the world. with her work masses ticked astir(predicate) anthropology and its holistic sight of the human species. bluff Boas was nonpareil of the start-off partners in her life. Mr. Boas was a fellow anthropologist. He snarl that Margaret would move a wise(p) look into finish through a womans mind. Mr. Boas always focussed and worked with men in his studies. He felt that Mead would be a good nominee to collect the development from unripeer woman because Mead was a young female also. Boas send Marga ret to a extraneous island to force field the Samoa young females in the middle 1920s.\nThis was one of Margaret Meads offset printing studies the juveniles in Samoa. She focused on characteristics of young females. This study resulted in her first book coming of Age in Samoa. Her reasoning roll in the hay the study was to key whether adolescence was a universally traumatic and disagreeable time out-of-pocket to biological factors or whether the experience of adolescence depended on ones cultural upbringing. The one focus was to decide if the female adolescent reactions to life were from refinement upbringing or were they genetic. Nature versus nature. When Margaret arrived to the island, she effected she would need to learn the language. She knew she would already stand out as the westerner. She wanted to commence rid of the voice and blend into the market-gardening as ofttimes as potential to learn the tight-laced ways. Mead spent non-finite hours and days edu cation the language beforehand submerging herself into the Samoa village.\nMead foun... '