Mead, Margaret,  1901-1978. <br/><br/>
Margaret Mead papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996  (bulk 1911-1978). 

 - 530,000  items. 1,790  50  containers plus  oversize. 2  microfilm reels. 783.2  linear feet. 
 -  Arranged in 22 series.  Series A: Family Papers, 1838-1979; Series B: Special Correspondence, 1914-1979; Series C: General Correspondence, 1909-1979; Series D: Curriculum Vitae, 1925-1979; Series E: Organizations File, 1921-1979; Series F: Special Working Groups, 1931-1978; Series G: Projects in Contemporary Cultures, 1933-1977; Series H: Scheduling File, 1928-1979; Series I: Publications and Other Writings File, 1923-1980; Series J: Teaching File, 1927-1978; Series K: Office File, 1925-1980; Series L: Miscellany, 1924-1979; Series M: Institute for Intercultural Studies, 1937-1980; Series N: Fieldwork: South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1925-1978; Series O: Papers of Colleagues, 1908-1978; Series P: Photographic File, 1878-1978; Series Q: Addition I, 1861-1987; Series R: Addition II, 1875-1979; Series S: Addition III, 1912-1996; Series T: Addition IV, 1877-1978; Series RE: Restricted, 1931-1979; and Series OV: Oversize, 1887-1984. 
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<br/><br/> Correspondence, writings, field notes, notebooks, teaching and office files, organization files, appointment books, family papers, photographs, and other papers chiefly concerning anthropological and ethnological field work particularly in American Samoa and with the Admiralty Islands and Sepik River Valley cultures of Papua New Guinea; Balinese of Indonesia; and Omaha Indians of the Great Plains in North America.  Subjects include cultural issues relating to World War II, cybernetics, ekistics (study of human settlements), health, interdisciplinary studies, nutrition, overpopulation, peace, population, race, and technological change.  Documents Mead's associations with the American Anthropological Association, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Museum of Natural History, Columbia University, Committee for National Morale, Fordham University, Hanover Seminar in Human Relations, National Research Council, National Research Council (U.S.) Committee on Food Habits, New York University, Research in Contemporary Cultures, World Federation for Mental Health, World Health Organization, and World Society for Ekistics.  Includes records of the Institute for Intercultural Studies and papers, chiefly field research, of Gregory Bateson, Jane Belo, Ruth Benedict, Edith Cobb, Lenora Foerstel, Reo Fortune, Margaret Lowenfeld, Lola Romanucci-Ross, Theodore Schwartz, and Martha Wolfenstein.  Family members represented include Mead's ancestor, Fanny Fogg Clary; grandparents, Giles F. Mead and Martha Adaline Ramsay Mead; parents, Edward Sherwood Mead and Emily Fogg Mead; husbands, Gregory Bateson, Luther Sheeleigh Cressman, and Reo Fortune; daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson; sisters, Priscilla Mead Rosten and Elizabeth Mead Steig; brother, Richard R. Mead; aunt, Fanny Fogg McMaster; and mother-in-law, Caroline Beatrice Bateson.  Other individuals represented include Léonie Adams, Franz Boas, Peter Henry Buck, Eliot Dismore Chapple, E.W. Pearson Chinnery, Wilton Dillon, John Dollard, Marie Eichelberger, Kenneth Pike Emory, Milton H. Erickson, Erik H. Erikson, Raymond Firth, Mary Shattuck Fisher (Langmuir Essex), Lawrence K. Frank, Frank Fremont-Smith, Margaret E. Fries, Clifford Geertz, Hildred Geertz, Geoffrey Gorer, A. Irving Hallowell, Leah Josephson Hanna, Barbara Honeyman Heath, Melville J. Herskovits, Herbert Ian Hogbin, G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Phyllis Mary Kaberry, Madē Kalēr, Clyde Kluckhohn, A.L. Kroeber, Eleanor Pelham Kortheuer, Harold D. Lasswell, Kurt Lewin, Robert Harry Lowie, Katharane Edson Mershon, Rhoda Bubendey Métraux, Philip E. Mosely, William Fielding Ogburn, Douglas L. Oliver, Sir Frederick Beaumont Phillips, G. Frederick Roll, Louise M. Rosenblatt, Katharine Rothenberger, Walter Spies, Sol Tax, and John Wesley Mayhew Whiting. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Microfilm 18,089 produced from originals in private hands. <br/>Washington, D.C. : <br/>Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, <br/>1981. 
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<br/><br/><br/>Anthropologist, author, and educator. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and on Internet. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Adams, Léonie, 1899-1988. <br/>Bateson, Caroline Beatrice.<br/>Bateson, Mary Catherine.<br/>Boas, Franz, 1858-1942. <br/>Buck, Peter Henry, 1877?-1951. <br/>Chapple, Eliot Dismore.<br/>Chinnery, E. W. Pearson 1887-1972. <br/>Clary, Fanny Fogg.<br/>Cressman, Luther Sheeleigh, 1897-1994. <br/>Dillon, Wilton.<br/>Dollard, John, 1900- <br/>Eichelberger, Marie, 1894-1983. <br/>Emory, Kenneth Pike, 1897- <br/>Erickson, Milton H.<br/>Erikson, Erik H. 1902-1994. <br/>Firth, Raymond, 1901-2002. <br/>Fisher, Mary Shattuck, b. 1899. <br/>Frank, Lawrence K. 1890-1968. <br/>Fremont-Smith, Frank, 1895-1974. <br/>Fries, Margaret E. 1896- <br/>Geertz, Clifford.<br/>Geertz, Hildred.<br/>Gorer, Geoffrey, 1905- <br/>Hallowell, A. Irving 1892-1974. <br/>Hanna, Leah Josephson.<br/>Heath, Barbara Honeyman.<br/>Herskovits, Melville J. 1895-1963. <br/>Hogbin, Herbert Ian, 1904-1989. <br/>Hutchinson, G. Evelyn 1903-1991. <br/>Kaberry, Phyllis Mary, 1910- <br/>Kalēr, Madē.<br/>Kluckhohn, Clyde, 1905-1960. <br/>Kroeber, A. L. 1876-1960. <br/>Kortheuer, Eleanor Pelham.<br/>Lasswell, Harold D. 1902-1978. <br/>Lewin, Kurt, 1890-1947. <br/>Lowie, Robert Harry, 1883-1957. <br/>McMaster, Fanny Fogg.<br/>Mead, Edward Sherwood, 1874-1956. <br/>Mead, Emily Fogg, b. 1871. <br/>Mead, Giles F.<br/>Mead, Martha Adaline Ramsay.<br/>Mead, Richard R. 1904- <br/>Mershon, Katharane Edson.<br/>Métraux, Rhoda Bubendey, 1914- <br/>Mosely, Philip E. 1905-1972. <br/>Ogburn, William Fielding, 1886-1959. <br/>Oliver, Douglas L.<br/>Phillips, Frederick Beaumont, Sir,  1890-1957. <br/>Roll, G. Frederick, 1911-2001. <br/>Rosenblatt, Louise M.<br/>Rosten, Priscilla Mead, 1911-1959. <br/>Rothenberger, Katharine.<br/>Spies, Walter.<br/>Steig, Elizabeth Mead, 1909-1983. <br/>Tax, Sol, 1907-1995. <br/>Whiting, John Wesley Mayhew, 1908-1999. <br/>Mead family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>American Anthropological Association.<br/>American Association for the Advancement of Science.<br/>American Museum of Natural History.<br/>Columbia University.<br/>Committee for National Morale.<br/>Fordham University.<br/>Hanover Seminar in Human Relations.<br/>National Research Council (U.S.)<br/>National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Food Habits. <br/>New York University.<br/>Research in Contemporary Cultures.<br/>World Federation for Mental Health.<br/>World Health Organization.<br/>World Society for Ekistics.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Anthropology.<br/>Anthropology--American Samoa.<br/>Anthropology--Great Plains.<br/>Anthropology--Indonesia--Bali.<br/>Anthropology--Papua New Guinea--Admiralty Islands.<br/>Anthropology--Sepik River Valley (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea)<br/>Balinese (Indonesian people)<br/>Culture.<br/>Cybernetics.<br/>Ethnology.<br/>Ethnology--American Samoa.<br/>Ethnology--Great Plains.<br/>Ethnology--Indonesia--Bali.<br/>Ethnology--Papua New Guinea--Admiralty Islands.<br/>Ethnology--Sepik River Valley (Indonesia and Papua New Guinea)<br/>Health.<br/>Human settlements.<br/>Interdisciplinary research.<br/>Nutrition.<br/>Omaha Indians.<br/>Overpopulation.<br/>Peace.<br/>Population.<br/>Race.<br/>Samoans.<br/>Technological innovations.<br/>Technology and civilization.<br/>World War, 1939-1945.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Anthropologists.<br/>Authors.<br/>Educators.