Continuities in Insight and Innovation: Toward a Biography of Margaret Mead
- 1 June 1980
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Anthropologist
- Vol. 82 (2) , 270-277
- https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1980.82.2.02a00020
Abstract
A biographical study of Margaret Mead presents a special opportunity for anthropologists to look at the relationship between the personality of a researcher, the researcher's own culture, and the scientific product, because of Mead's own awareness of disciplined subjectivity and the richness of the available scientific and personal record. Concurrently, it will be possible to consider her innovations and conservatisms in family life and organizational structure as expressions of anthropological insight. [researcher bias, field methods, history of anthropology, innovation, life history]Keywords
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