Margaret Mead [SEP] place of birth
Her reports detailing the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures influenced the 1960s sexual revolution. She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions within a context of traditional Western religious life.
Birth, early family life, and education.
Margaret Mead, the first of five children, was born in Philadelphia, but raised in nearby Doylestown, Pennsylvania. Her father, Edward Sherwood Mead, was a professor of finance at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and her mother, Emily (née
process of the biosocial framework.
Reception and recognition.
Reception and recognition Honors and awards.
In 1980, Jordan received the Margaret Mead Award in recognition for "Birth in Four Cultures".
Reception and recognition Academic reviews.
While much of the reception for "Birth in Four Cultures" has been overwhelmingly positive, some anthropologists have criticized Jordan for her exclusive focus on the social aspects of birth without much attention to religious or ideological concerns in her research.
"Birth in Four Cultures" was one of the