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Wikipedia: Margaret Mead

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The English-language Wikipedia biography of Margaret Mead, the American cultural anthropologist, covering her life, her fieldwork method, and the later Freeman controversy over her Samoa research. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Publisher
Wikipedia
URL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead
Source Type
Encyclopedia
Assessment
Reliability Tier
3
Tier 3 (secondary reference): a general encyclopedia biography used for standard biographical claims and to source a real, named scholarly controversy rather than adjudicate it.
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Wikipedia: Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist.
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Claims Backed By This Source (18 claims)

This source backs 18 claims across the atlas. As facts: 14 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

Disposition By Topic

  • Social Theorists, 13 claims: 9 well-attested, 2 holds, 2 general references.
  • Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.

Well-attested

14

Social Theorists

Holds

2

Social Theorists

General References

2

Social Theorists

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