I'm Steve Ember. And I'm Shirley Griffith with PEOPLE IN AMERICA in VOA Special English.Today we tell about one of the most influential social scientists of the last century -- the cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead.People around the world mourned the death of Margaret Mead in nineteen seventy-eight.A year later, the president of the United States, Jimmy Carter, honored the social scientist with America's highest award for civilians.Another honor came from a village in New Guinea. The people there planted a coconut tree in her memory.Margaret Mead would have liked that. As a young woman, she had studied the life and traditions of the village.Miz Mead received such honors because she added greatly to public knowledge of cultures and traditions in developing countries.
