Editing Margaret Mead (section)

==Early life and education==
Margaret Mead, the first of five children, was born in [[Philadelphia]] but raised in nearby [[Doylestown, Pennsylvania]]. Her father, Edward Sherwood Mead, was a professor of finance at the [[Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania]], and her mother, Emily (née Fogg) Mead,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/mead/mead-shaping.html |title=Shaping Forces – Margaret Mead: Human Nature and the Power of Culture (Library of Congress Exhibition) |publisher=Loc.gov |access-date=September 29, 2010|date=November 30, 2001 }}</ref> was a sociologist who studied Italian immigrants.<ref name="unesco bio">{{cite web|url=http://www.ibe.unesco.org/publications/ThinkersPdf/meade.pdf |title="Margaret Mead" by Wilton S. Dillon |access-date=September 29, 2010}}</ref> Her sister Katharine (1906–1907) died at the age of nine months. That was a traumatic event for Mead, who had named the girl, and thoughts of her lost sister permeated her daydreams for many years.<ref name="Howard">[[Jane Howard (journalist)|Howard, Jane]]. (1984). ''Margaret Mead: A Life'', New York: Simon and Schuster.</ref> 

Her family moved frequently and so her early education was directed by her grandmother until, at age 11, she was enrolled by her family at [[Buckingham Friends School]] in [[Lahaska]], Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Stella|first1=Nicole and Jenifer|title=New Hope, Lahaska, and Buckingham (PA) (Images of America)|year=2005|publisher=Arcadia Publishing|isbn=978-0-7385-3796-2|page=46|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uyGs_qfSMQwC&q=Buckingham%20Friends%20School&pg=PA46}}</ref> Her family owned the [[Longland (Holicong, Pennsylvania)|Longland]] farm from 1912 to 1926.<ref name="arch">{{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| title = National Historic Landmarks & National Register of Historic Places in Pennsylvania| publisher = CRGIS: Cultural Resources Geographic Information System| format = Searchable database| access-date = November 6, 2012| archive-date = September 14, 2005| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20050914194407/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce/SelectWelcome.asp| url-status = dead}} ''Note:'' This includes {{cite web| url = https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H099089_01H.pdf| title = National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Longland| access-date = September 30, 2012| author = Jeffrey L. Marshall| date = October 1999| archive-date = May 25, 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130525175524/https://www.dot7.state.pa.us/ce_imagery/phmc_scans/H099089_01H.pdf| url-status = dead}}</ref> Born into a family of various religious outlooks, she searched for a form of religion that gave an expression of the faith with which she had been formally acquainted, Christianity.<ref name="Mead">{{harvnb|Mead|1972|pp=76–77}}</ref> In doing so, she found the rituals of the [[Episcopal Church (United States)|Episcopal Church]] to fit the expression of religion she was seeking.<ref name="Mead" /> Mead studied one year, 1919, at [[DePauw University]], then transferred to [[Barnard College]].

Mead earned her bachelor's degree from Barnard in 1923, began studying with professors [[Franz Boas]] and [[Ruth Benedict]] at [[Columbia University]], and earned her master's degree in 1924.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.britannica.com/women/article-9051668 |title=Encyclopædia Britannica's Guide to Women's History |encyclopedia=Britannica.com |access-date=September 29, 2010}}</ref> Mead set out in 1925 to do fieldwork in [[Samoa]].<ref>Mead 1977</ref> In 1926, she joined the [[American Museum of Natural History]], New York City, as assistant curator.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/margaretmead.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20000519172229/http://www.webster.edu/~woolflm/margaretmead.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 19, 2000 |title=Margaret Mead |publisher=Webster.edu |date=December 18, 1901 |access-date=September 29, 2010}}</ref> She received her Ph.D. from [[Columbia University]] in 1929.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mmead.htm |title=Margaret Mead |website=Books and Writers (kirjasto.sci.fi) |first=Petri|last=Liukkonen |publisher=[[Kuusankoski]] Public Library |location=Finland |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150210175324/http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/mmead.htm |archive-date=February 10, 2015 |url-status=dead}}</ref>