Margaret Mead
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She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College of Columbia University and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia. Mead served as President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975.
Mead was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic.Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution.She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within the context of Western cultural traditions.
Together with her third husband (1936-1950), Gregory Bateson, she did research on Balinese culture.
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