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Margaret Mead — This Day in Women's History

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Margaret Mead

1901 – 1978

Cultural anthropologist whose fieldwork reshaped popular understanding of gender and society.

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Dec161901
Science
Margaret Mead born in Philadelphia
The cultural anthropologist is born.
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