Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
Margaret Meadwas an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 December 1901
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
believe goes-on tasks
It has been a woman's task throughout history to go on believing in life when there was almost no hope.
mother sex father
And as I had my father's kind of mind-which was also his mother's-I learned that the mind is not sex-typed.
family matter creeps
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.
sports nfl toys
If sports are the toy department of life, then the NFL is the FAO Schwartz of sports.
jealousy insecurity degrees
Jealousy is not a barometer by which the depth of love can be read. It merely records the degree of the lover's insecurity.
photography moving training
Anthropology... has always been highly dependent upon photography... As the use of still photography - and moving pictures - has become increasingly essential as a part of anthropological methods, the need for photographers with a disciplined knowledge of anthropology and for anthropologists with training in photography has increased. We expect that in the near future sophisticated training in photography will be a requirement for all anthropologists. (1962)
views vision culture
Photographs [are] of course heavily dependent upon the culture, the disciplinary point of view and the idiosyncratic vision of the particular photographer-analyst.
water lasts would-be
If a fish were an anthropologist, the last thing it would discover would be water.
smell
You can never have a relationship with someone whose smell you don't like.
art succeed
An education not founded on Art will never succeed.
children towns sidewalk
Any town that doesn't have sidewalks doesn't love its children.
safety people earth-day
EARTH DAY reminds the people of the world of the need for continuing care which is vital to Earth's safety.
sex justice mind
The mind is not sex-typed.
brain attention world
Where we choose to put our attention changes our brain, which in time can change how we see and interact with the world.