Margaret Mead

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Born	December 16, 1901 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died	November 15, 1978 (aged 76) • New York City • New York
Awards And Honors	Presidential Medal of Freedom (1979)
Notable Works	“A Rap on Race” • “Coming of Age in Samoa” • “Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies”
Notable Family Members	spouse Gregory Bateson

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Franz Boas

Franz Boas

German-American anthropologist

Frederic Ward Putnam.

Frederic Ward Putnam

American anthropologist

Edward W. Gifford

American anthropologist

Bastian

Adolf Bastian

German ethnologist

Aleš Hrdlička

American anthropologist

Sol Tax

American anthropologist

Roland B. Dixon

American anthropologist

The Grand Canyon at the foot of the Toroweap, illustration by William Henry Holmes from Clarence E. Dutton's Atlas to Accompany the Monograph on the Tertiary History of the Grand Canyon District, 1882.

William Henry Holmes

American archaeologist

Ruth Benedict

Ruth Benedict

American anthropologist and author

Maurice Freedman

British anthropologist

Bronisław Malinowski

Bronisław Malinowski

Polish-born British anthropologist

Robert J. Braidwood

American anthropologist

Kevin Young

Kevin Young

American poet, essayist, and editor

Lonnie G. Bunch III

Lonnie G. Bunch III

American museum director

Powell, John Wesley

John Wesley Powell

American explorer, geologist, and ethnologist

Alfred H. Barr, Jr.

American museum curator

Beaumont Newhall

American photography historian, writer, and curator

Daniel Lieberman

Daniel Lieberman

American paleoanthropologist

Eugenie Clark

Eugenie Clark

American ichthyologist

Paul Farmer

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