Margaret Mead

Adolescence à Samoa est un essai anthropologique de Margaret Mead paru en 1928 en anglais sous le titre Coming of Age in Samoa. L'anthropologue américaine y étudie la jeunesse d'une île samoane, Ta‘ū, en particulier ses adolescentes. Préfacé par Franz Boas, ce livre est l'un des plus lus et des plus controversés de sa …

During her exceptional life Margaret Mead represented many things to the American public; sage, scientist, noncomformist, crusader for world peace, and archetypal grandmother. An enduring cultural icon for our century, she came to symbolize a new kind of woman, one who successfully combined marriage and motherhood …

Male and Female is a 1949 comparative study of tribal men and women on seven Pacific islands and men and women in the contemporary United States by anthropologist Margaret Mead.