Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the mid-twentieth century.
Mead in 1948
Ink on paper drawing by artist I Ketut Ngéndon depicting anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson leaving Bali and heading for Papua New Guinea
Samoan girl, c. 1896
Mead, c. 1950
Ruth Benedict
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Ruth Fulton Benedict was an American anthropologist and folklorist.
Margaret Mead
…University, then transferred to Barnard College. Mead earned her bachelor's degree from Barnard in 1923, began studying with professors Franz Boas and Ruth Benedict at Columbia University, and earned her master's degree in 1924. Mead set out in 1925 to do fieldwork in Samoa. In 1926, she joined the American Museum…
Benedict in 1937