Margaret Mead (1901-1978). Anthropologist. Her extensive work in the field dealt with issues as interconnected as race, sex, marriage, childbearing, mental health, feminism and education. She reminds us of the power of collective, unified action to make change in the world. political organizing. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever does." The following information is NOT printed on this postcard: Margaret Mead was both a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and Western culture, and also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist. Her reports about the attitudes towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian traditional cultures amply informed the 1960s sexual revolution. Mead was a champion of broadened sexual mores within a context of traditional western religious life.