Margaret Mead (1901–1978) was a groundbreaking American cultural anthropologist whose fieldwork in the South Pacific revolutionized how society understands adolescence, gender roles, and cultural conditioning. She famously argued that human behavior is largely shaped by culture rather than biology.
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She had opinions on almost everything and she had done research, studied and thought about it all too. This is Margaret Mead talking about sleep and how cultures around the world deal with the universal experience – we all sleep every night.
It is 1976, Margaret Mead is President of American Association for the Advancement of Science. She took the occasion of her keynote address to talk about field research and what Anthropologists do in their research. February 20, 1976.