Margaret's parents were from the midwest, and because of their professions, the family moved quite a bit living in such places as Hampton, New Jersey; Greenwich Village in New York City, and St. Marks Square in Philadelphia. Because she moved so much as a child, Margaret had been subjected to many different styles of living, and therefore had a growing desire to learn more about different lifestyles and cultures.

Margaret's first major experience was going to school. Margaret often felt out of place because of moving so much and being in many different schools, and often being taught at home by her grandmother.

However, it was in high school that she met and later became engaged to a man by the name of Luther Cressman. After attending many high schools because of her family's travel, she graduated, and was sent to DePauw University at Greencastle Indiana

Margaret died in 1978 having lived a very enriched life. Margaret Mead was a clean and forceful person, who had a great impact on the world of psychology and anthropology, and to her we owe much knowledge.

Her second field work, to the Manus Tribe of the Admiralty Islands in the West Pacific Ocean, was made possible by a Social Science Research Council Fellowship in 1928 and continued into 1929. In 1930, Dr. Mead was began her third field trip, this time to study an American Indian tribe which she calls" the antlers" in her book reporting her findings and conclusions. Between 1931and 1933, Dr. Mead was again in the New Guinea area, investigating three contrasted tribes, the Arapesh, the Mudugmor, and the Tchambuli. In her study, she found that in the Arapesh culture, both men and women were expected to be equal. This culture was found to be very simple, because both the male and the female had a part in raising the children. On the other hand, the Mudugmor culture was rather fierce. Both the men and the women were mean and aggressive, and often the children were left to fend for themselves. If a child was born of the wrong sex, they were commonly cast int

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