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The way to do fieldwork is never to come up for air until it is all over.

Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead
Age: 76 †
Born: 1901
Born: December 16
Died: 1978
Died: November 15
Anthropologist
Cultural Anthropologist
Curator
Film Director
Writer
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Never
Fieldwork
Metamorphosis
Air
Come
Way

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