From the Vault: Margaret Mead

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From the Vault: Margaret Mead
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PRA Archive #: 
PZ0673.009
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~Margaret Mead (1901-1978)

This week on From the Vault, we’ll hear from the renowned cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead. That is to say, we’ll hear her musings on a generous swath of subjects, such as the family in America, the roles of men and women in society, marriage, raising children, sex, free-love, hetero, homo, and bi-sexuality, marijuana legalization, college students, Indonesia, Samoa, cancer, the Generation Gap, and so on and so on and so on…

Once called a “dirty old lady” by the governor of Florida, Mead lived her life in a way so that generations of women came to know her as a “feminist,” although, in the end, she always preferred to think of herself as just “feminine.”

From her views on free-love to her life-long affair with another woman despite her multiple marriages, Mead practiced what she preached—living your life in the NOW.

It was this commitment to her ideals that made Margaret Meade so special, and such an appeal to community radio listeners… it should be no surprise, then, that Pacifica Radio Archives has preserved nearly thirty hours of Margaret Mead in her own voice. This episode of From the Vault excerpts some of the most compelling of that audio…

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2006-06-09 00:00:00
Total duration (All reels): 
59
Distributor: 
Los Angeles : Pacifica Radio Archive, 1975.
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