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10 unusual facts about Margaret Mead


Anti-racism

At that time, anthropologists such as Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, Margaret Mead, and Ashley Montagu argued for the equality of humans across races and cultures.

Armando Favazza

Upon the death of his former teacher, Margaret Mead, he took her place as author of the chapter on Psychiatry and Anthropology in the third edition of The Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry (1980).

Clinical ethnography

Figures in this larger tradition include but are not limited to: Jean Briggs, George Devereux, Cora DuBois, A. Irving Hallowell, Abram Kardiner, Ralph Linton, Melford Spiro, and at least tangentially Gregory Bateson, Margaret Mead, and Marvin Opler.

Colin McPhee

He enrolled in the Peabody Institute in 1918, studying composition with Gustav Strube and piano with Harold Randolph; subsequently he studied with the avant-garde composer Edgard Varèse before marrying Jane Belo, a disciple of Margaret Mead, in 1931.

Human Studies Film Archives

The NAFC was founded through the advocacy of a group of anthropologists and filmmakers, including Margaret Mead, John Marshall, Timothy Asch, and Jay Ruby.

JumpStart Adventures 5th Grade: Jo Hammet, Kid Detective

Also note there is a character named Maggie Mead, after Lake Mead or possibly Margaret Mead.

Meta-communication

The study was joined by several other anthropologists, including Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson.

Mount Royal Station

Architectural Forum recognized the station renovation for "sensitivity by later architects to the initial conception by the original," and Margaret Mead, in a lecture given at the station, commented that the renovation "is perhaps the most magnificent example in the Western World of something being made into something else".

Rabaul

Visits to and stays in Rabaul during this period were amply described in books by many authors, including Margaret Mead.

Village of Oak Creek, Arizona

Scholars who helped found the school and guide its early years included Harvard anthropologist Clyde Kluckhohn, anthropologist Margaret Mead, and John Collier, Commissioner of Indian Affairs during the Franklin Roosevelt administration.


Fred Kent

He studied with Margaret Mead and worked with William H. Whyte on the "Street Life Project," assisting in observations and film analysis of corporate plazas, urban streets, parks, and other open spaces in New York City.

Harold G. Nelson

He has been president of the International Society for the Systems Sciences in 2000, a position previously held by such notable scholars as: Margaret Mead, Ilya Prigogine, Russell Ackoff, Sir Charles Geoffrey Vickers and C. West Churchman.

Hartley Film Foundation

She completed films about the world's spiritual and religious traditions (including the well-known documentaries Requiem for a Faith and The Sufi Way),and collaborated with Margaret Mead, Joseph Campbell, Edgar Mitchell, Jean Houston, Ram Dass, Alan Watts, Huston Smith and Larry Dossey, among others.

Kresge College

Distinguished early faculty members included Gregory Bateson, former husband of Margaret Mead and author of Steps to an Ecology of Mind; Phil Slater, author of The Pursuit of Loneliness; John Grinder, co-founder of Neuro-linguistic programming and co-author of The Structure of Magic; and William Everson, one of the Beat poets.

Luther H. Evans

Working with a range of other Americans prominent in foreign policy, including Father Theodore Hesburgh of Notre Dame, Norman Cousins of Saturday Review, James Grant of the Overseas Development Council, anthropologist Margaret Mead, World Federalist Chairman H. Donald Wilson, and World Bank president Robert McNamara, Evans organized an organization called New Directions.

New York Academy of Sciences

Since its beginnings, Academy membership has included prominent leaders in the sciences, business, academia and government, including Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Monroe, Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Margaret Mead, and Albert Einstein.

Trance and Dance in Bali

Trance and Dance in Bali is a short documentary film shot by Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson during their visits to Bali in the 1930s.

Trust in God and keep your powder dry

The second half the phrase is often used by itself, and forms the title of the 1945 film Keep Your Powder Dry as well as Margaret Mead's 1942 book And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America.