MARGARET MEAD [ca. 1970] Set of 2 photos

Margaret Mead. 1970. Photos. New York: Various, [ca. 1970]. Two vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm) black-and-white photos. One has very light scattered creases and stamp on verso of portrait photographer Antony di Gesu, the other has stamp of American Museum of Natural History (where Mead was curator of ethnology from 1946-69) and evidence of a descriptive text once affixed there. Overall just about fine.

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, author and speaker, who appeared frequently in the mass media during the 1960s and the 1970s. Mead served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1975.

She was a communicator of anthropology in modern American and Western culture and was often controversial as an academic. 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 the context of Western cultural traditions. (Wikipedia)