If Mead’s influence were for the good, then she would deserve the profuse praise she received. Few women have been more adored, more honored and more influential than she. In 1979, a year after her death, Mead was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. For nearly half a century, whether writing scholarly articles from her desk at the American Museum of Natural History in New York or pontificating as contributing editor of the popular magazine Redbook, Mead helped to refashion attitudes on nearly every social issue. An immediate success, this slender volume established Mead as the most famous and most influential anthropologist of the 20th century. In 1928, Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa. Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flipboard Print arroba EmailĪnthropology Afoul of the Facts Margaret Mead's Flights of Fancy in Samoa Benjamin Wiker Human Exceptionalism Originally published at National Catholic Register
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