Dec. 16, 1901 was the birthday of anthropologist Margaret Mead (d. 1978). Mead is famous for her groundbreaking work on sexual habits in areas of the South Pacific and Asia. Her findings seemed to prefigure some of the ideas that fueled the sexual revolution in the 60s - which led to controversy within academe…
Photo: John Loengard, 1968 - LIFE
Caption: Decorated Tchambul skull for a museum specimen (fore); anthropologist Margaret Mead at work (probably in office at the American Museum of Natural History).
