American anthropologist Margaret Mead was best known for her studies of how culture influences the development of personality. Living among the people of the Pacific Islands, Mead studied their ways of life and wrote about how cultures differ in what behavior they consider appropriate. She also studied how children learn to become part of their culture. Her pioneering work marks Mead as perhaps the most famous anthropologist of all time.
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American anthropologist Margaret Mead was best known for her studies of how culture influences the development of personality. Living among the people of the Pacific Islands, Mead studied their ways of life and wrote about how cultures differ in what behavior they consider appropriate. She also studied how children learn to become part of their culture. Her pioneering work marks Mead as perhaps the most famous anthropologist of all time.
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