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OCR: 38 Margaret Mead MARGARET MEAD 1901 -78) TAUGHT GENERATIONS OF AMERICANS ABOUT the value of looking carefully and openly at other cultures to better understand the complexities of being human Scientist explorer writer and teacher Mead who worked the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History from 1926 until her death. brought the serious work anthropology into the public consciousness. Mead studied at Barnard College where she met the great anthropologist Franz Boas who became her mentor and advisor when she attended graduate school at Columbia University She was twenty -three years old when she first traveled to the South Pacific to conduct research