This Sunday would have been the hundredth birthday of Margaret Mead (1901-1978) who was to become the most famous anthropologist in the world.
In 1923, she set off for the island of Samoa where she conducted her then ground-breaking research into adolescent girls. The book she wrote - Coming of Age in Samoa - was an immediate bestseller and propelled anthropology into the public eye. Sheila McClennon is joined by Professor Adam Cooper of Brunel University and June Goodfield, who knew Margaret Mead, to look back on her career, the causes she championed and the controversies she caused. Coming of Age in Samoa : A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization (HarperCollins)
