Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978


  • Drugs and society symposium.

    On the legal, moral, and religious aspects of drug use in America. |r.l. Dr. Harvey Gollance, Frank Natale, and Larry Allan Bear (67 min.) — r.2. Margaret Mead and Alfred Crisci (61 min.).


  • Implications of the generation gap for personality / Margaret Mead.

    Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901 – 1978) speaks on the implications of the generation gap for personality development at the New School for Social Research in New York City on February 20, 1969. She explains that generation gaps exist across all cultures, describes inter-generational relationships in Pacific Island cultures, and the growing alienation between younger and…


  • Margaret Mead in New York.

    SAME TAPE AS BB2124 BUT LESS COMPLETE. Speech on the implications of the generation gap for personality development.


  • Coming of age in America / Margaret Mead.

    Anthropologist Margaret Mead (1901 – 1978) delivers a talk at Diablo Valley College on the pressures of adolescence in America from an anthropological perspective. She addresses some of the problems teenagers face in the current day, the genesis of these problems, and what one can do about them. This recording is different from BC1042.06 though…


  • With Margaret Mead in New Guinea / Lenora Foerstel interviewed by Larry Birns

    Interview with Lenora Foerstel, anthropologist, artist, mother of two, and professor at the Maryland Institute of Fine Art. They discuss the experiences that Foerstel and fellow anthropologist Theodore Schwartz had on Manus Island, while aiding Margaret Mead with a follow-up study in New Guinea. The first time Mead visited Manus Island and the Manus tribes,…


  • Can we find an index for the quality of life? / moderated by S. Fred Singer and Mancur Olson.

    Symposium heard at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) held in December 1971 in Philadephia titled “Can we find an index for the quality of life?” Moderators are professor S. Fred Singer of the University of Virginia, and professor Mancur L. Olsen of the University of Maryland. Speakers are Uriel G. Foa,…


  • Why can’t we communicate with the Russians? / Margaret Mead.

    Anthropological analysis of U.S.-U.S.S.R. diplomatic relations.|WHY CAN’T WE COMMUNICATE WITH THE RUSSIANS? / Margaret Mead. – Noted anthropologist provides a cultural analysis of United States-Union of Soviet Socialist Republics diplomatic relations. – BROADCAST: KPFK, 29 Jan. 1962.


  • Behavior patterns in the U.S. and the Soviet Union

    Anthropologist Dr. Margaret Mead, psychoanalyst Franz Alexander, and Dr. Donald A. Lowry, former YMCA leader in Russia, discuss how behavior patterns differ and how they are growing alike in the U.S. and Soviet Union. Topics include young people, education, retirement, government, and the bias through which people from each nation view each other.