Margaret Mead served as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1925 to 1969. She began her career with a study of youth and adolescence in Samoan society, published as Coming of Age in Samoa (1928). She published prolifically, becoming a seminal figure in anthropology, and was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1979.

Series Preface
William O. Beeman

Introduction
Robert B. Textor

• Margaret Mead's Historic Contribution
• Mead and Futures Studies
• Mead's Intellectual Approach and Expressive Style
• Editor's Personal Contacts with Dr. Mead
• Appendix: The Rationale and Future of Anticipatory Anthropology
• Acknowledgements

TWENTY-FIVE WRITINGS AND LECTURES BY MARGARET MEAD
1943: The Family in the Future
1945: Human Differences and World Order
1950: Unique Possibilities of the Melting Pot
1962: The Psychology of Warless Man
1963a: Beyond the Nuclear Family
1963b: Patterns of Worldwide Cultural Change in the 1960s
1966a: One World-But Which Language?
1966b: The University and Institutional Change
1967: Changing Cultural Patterns of Work and Leisure
1968a: New Year's-A Universal Birthday
1968b: Alternatives to War
1968c: The Crucial Role of the Small City in Meeting the Urban Crisis
1968d: Statement [on Aging And Retirement]
1968e: Some Social Consequences of a Guaranteed Income
1969: Man On the Moon
1970a: Education for Humanity
1970b: Kalinga Prize Acceptance Speech
1971: A Note on Contributions of Anthropology to the Science of the Future
1973a: The Kind of City We Want
1973b: Prospects for World Harmony
1974a: Opening Address [to The Society for General Systems Research]
1974b: Changing Perspectives on Modernization
1974c: Ways to Deal with the Current Social Transformation
1975: Discussion [about How Anthropologists Can Perform Better in Applied Roles]
1977: Our Open-Ended Future

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