The Life of the Characters in margaret mead's Works

19011216 margaret mead was born in a middle-class family in Philadelphia, USA. His father is a professor in a business school and his mother is a doctor of sociology. Meade's grandmother is highly educated and used to be a teacher. Under her education, margaret mead became a generalist. Before reaching adulthood, Margaret studied textiles, music, sculpture, painting, arithmetic and poetry. At the age of 8, my grandmother asked Meade to observe and record her sister's language habits, which was Meade's earliest anthropological training.

1920 In the autumn, margaret mead, who was only 19 years old, transferred from De Baugh University in Indiana to Barnard College to study English, hoping to become an excellent writer. 1923 got a bachelor's degree in English and philosophy, got married in the same year, and went to Columbia University to study for a master's degree in psychology.

From 65438 to 0924, Meade met the anthropologist Franz Boyas and his female assistant ruth benedict. The profound knowledge and great personality strength of Boyas and Benny Decatur gave Meade the courage and confidence to devote himself to anthropological research. She soon finished her master's thesis in psychology, and like her elder sister Benedict, who is 14 years older than her, she became a master's student under Boyas.

1925, 23-year-old margaret mead ignored Boaz's advice and went to Samoa, a small island in the South Pacific, and began the most basic, arduous and important field trip in anthropology. Due to poor medical conditions, Meade contracted malaria on the island, which troubled her all her life.

From 1926 to 1942, margaret mead was the assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History.

From 65438 to 0928, based on his investigation in Samoa, Meade completed and published his first anthropological work, Samoan Adults.

From 65438 to 0929, Meade began to study the three primitive tribes in New Guinea, and based on this, he wrote the book Gender and Temperament of the Three Primitive Tribes.

1936, when Meade entered the South Pacific again, he went to Bali to study the relationship between childhood experience and adult personality.

1939, Meade wrote to the wife of then President Roosevelt, suggesting that the United States should have a dialogue with Hitler on the development of Europe.

194 1 After the outbreak of the Pacific War, Meade and his anthropological colleagues applied anthropological knowledge to the national war strategy, actively promoted social reform, paid attention to people's livelihood and realized human welfare. She joined the Diet Committee and used anthropological field methods to change American eating habits through experimental results to cope with wartime food shortage.

From 1942 to 1964, Gleiter Meade was the deputy curator of the American Museum of Natural History, and from 1964 to 1969, she was the curator of the American Museum of Natural History. 1after July, 969, he served as honorary curator of ethnology in the museum. Among them, from 1959 to 1960, Meade also served as the president of the American Anthropological Society.

1970, Meade's last masterpiece, Culture and Commitment-A Study of the Generation Gap, was officially published. In the same year, he served as chairman of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

1978165438+1October15th, Meade died of pancreatic cancer in new york, USA. The villagers of Manus Island in the South Pacific held a five-day funeral for her, which would only be held after the death of the chief to express their condolences. In new york, the President of the United States delivered a eulogy. Thousands of people paid tribute to her with flowers and her autobiography "Blackberry Winter".