Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist and writer. She changed the way we study different human cultures. Her work revolves around understanding primitive societies and cultures that are vastly different from modern western civilization.
Her pioneering anthropological work on sexuality, culture and childrearing continues to be influential today. Margaret Mead was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in 1976 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979, a year after her death.
