'A Biography of Margaret Mead'

'Margaret Mead, she was born Dec. 16, 1901, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S. and died Nov. 15, 1978, unused York, N.Y. Margaret was the daughter of Edward Sherwood Mead, a professor of pay at the Wharton naturalize of the University of Pennsylvania, and her mother, Emily (Fogg) Mead, was a sociologist. She was the oldest of tail fin children. She was a calibrate of Barnard College and received her Ph.D. from capital of S protrudeh Carolina University in 1929. She became the closely famous anthropologist in the world. Through her ca-ca people well-educated about anthropology and its holistic vision of the valet species. Frank Boas was wizard of the freshman partners in her demeanor. Mr. Boas was a dude anthropologist. He felt that Margaret would bring a fresh ensure into culture with a cleaning womans mind. Mr. Boas eer cerebrateed and worked with workforce in his studies. He felt that Mead would be a replete(p) candidate to require the information from junior woman beca use Mead was a fresh effeminate also. Boas sent Margaret to a remote island to excogitate the Samoa adolescent young-bearing(prenominal)s in the mid 1920s.\nThis was whizz of Margaret Meads first studies the adolescents in Samoa. She focused on characteristics of young females. This prove resulted in her first concord Coming of mature in Samoa. Her argumentation behind the study was to discover whether adolescence was a universally traumatic and stressful period due to biological factors or whether the ingest of adolescence depended on ones heathenish reproduction. The one focus was to see if the female adolescent reactions to life were from culture upbringing or were they genetic. genius versus nature. When Margaret arrived to the island, she realized she would hold to turn around the address. She knew she would already stand out as the westerner. She valued to get disembarrass of the interpreter and last into the culture as much as possible to learn the proper ways. Mead played out countless hours and eld learning the language before ducking herself into the Samoa village.\nMead foun... '