Abstract
Mýty Margaret Mead [The Myths of Margaret Mead] is a book devoted to both the professional and the private life of the important representative of anthropology, Margaret Mead. While there exists a large number of publications on Mead in the Anglophone milieu, in the Czech environment at which the book is primarily targeted, Mead is discussed mostly in outlines of the history of anthropology.
In them, she is presented without exception as a female anthropologist who failed during her first field research in the Samoa archipelago but whose research had, in many ways, influenced the then forming American cultural anthropology. The present volume not only problematizes such simplified interpretation but also offers a broader perspective on the assessment of the scholarly achievement of the anthropologist, a follower of Franz Boas, one of the founders of American cultural anthropology, and herself a pioneer of visual, psychological, and feminist anthropology.