Major Publications
| Date | Publication |
|---|---|
| 1928 | Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization (New York: W. Morrow & Co. 297 pp.) An Inquiry Into the Cultural Stability in Polynesia (New York: Columbia University Press. 89 pp.) |
| 1930 | Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education (New York: W. Morrow & Co. 372 pp.) "Social Organization of Manu'a," Bernice P. Bishop Museum Bulletin 76, Honolulu, Hawaii |
| 1932 | The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe (New York: Columbia University Press. 313 pp.) |
| 1934 | "Kinship in the Admiralty Islands," Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History 34, pp. 183-358 |
| 1935 | Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (New York: W. Morrow & Co. 335 pp.) |
| 1937 | Cooperation and Competition Among Primitive Peoples (New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co. 531 pp.) |
| 1939 | From the South Seas: Studies of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies (New York: W. Morrow & Co. 304 pp.) |
| 1942 | And Keep Your Powder Dry: An Anthropologist Looks at America (New York: W. Morrow & Co. 274 pp.) Published with Gregory Bateson Balinese Character: A Photographic Study of Balinese Childhood (New York: New York Academy of Sciences. 277 pp.) |
| 1949 | Male and Female: A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World (New York: W. Morrow. 477 pp.) |
| 1951 | Published with Frances M. Cooke Macgregor Growth and Culture: A Photographic Study of Balinese Childhood (New York: Putnam. 223 pp.) The School in American Culture (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 48 pp.) Soviet Attitudes Toward Authority (New York: McGraw-Hill. 148 pp.) |
| 1953 | Cultural Patterns and Technical Change edited by Margaret Mead (Paris: UNESCO. 348 pp.) The Study of Culture at a Distance, edited by Margaret Mead and Rhoda Bubendey Métraux (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 480 pp.) |
| 1954 | Published with Rhoda Bubendey Métraux Themes in French Culture: A Preface to a Study of French Community (Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 120 pp.) |
| 1955 | Childhood in Contemporary Cultures edited by Margaret Mead and Martha Wolfenstein (Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 473 pp.) |
| 1956 | New Lives for Old: Cultural Transformation--Manus (New York: Morrow. 548 pp.) |
| 1959 | An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict (Boston: Houghton Mifflin. 583 pp.) People and Places (Cleveland: World Publishing Co. 318 pp.) |
| 1960 | The Golden Age of American Anthropology selected and edited by Margaret Mead and Ruth L. Bunzel (New York: G. Braziller. 630 pp.) |
| 1964 | Anthropology, a Human Science: Selected Papers, 1939-1960 (Princeton, N.J.: Van Nostrand. 260 pp.) Continuities in Cultural Evolution (New Haven: Yale University Press. 471 pp.) |
| 1965 | American Women: The Report of the President's Commission on the Status of Women and Other Publications of the Commission edited by Margaret Mead and Frances B. Kaplan (New York: Scribner. 274 pp.) Anthropologists and What They Do (New York: F. Watts. 209 pp.) Published with Ken Heyman Family (New York: Macmillan. 208 pp.) |
| 1966 | Published with Muriel Brown The Wagon and the Star: A Study of American Community Initiative (St. Paul, Minn.: Curriculum Resources. 166 pp.) |
| 1968 | Science and the Concept of Race edited by Margaret Mead, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Ethel Tobach, and Robert E. Light (New York: Columbia University Press. 177 pp.) Published with Paul Byers The Small Conference: An Innovation in Communication (Paris: Mouton. 129 pp.) |
| 1970 | Culture and Commitment: A Study of the Generation Gap (Garden City, N.Y.: American Museum of Natural History, Natural History Press. 113 pp.) Published with Rhoda Bubendey Métraux A Way of Seeing (New York: McCall Publishing Co. 335 pp.) |
| 1971 | Published with James Baldwin A Rap on Race (Philadelphia: Lippincott. 256 pp.) |
| 1972 | Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years (New York: Morrow. 305 pp.) To Love or to Perish: The Technological Crisis and the Churches edited by Margaret Mead, J. Edward Carothers, Daniel D. MacCracken, and Roger L. Shinn (New York: Friendship Press. 152 pp.) |
| 1973 | Twentieth Century Faith: Hope and Survival (New York: Harper & Row. 172 pp.) |
| 1974 | Ruth Benedict (New York: Columbia University Press. 180 pp.) |
| 1975 | Published with Ken Heyman World Enough: Rethinking the Future (Boston: Little, Brown. 218 pp.) |
| 1977 | Letters from the Field, 1925-1975 (New York: Harper & Row. 343 pp.) |
| 1980 | Published with Rhoda Bubendey Métraux Aspects of the Present (New York: Morrow. 320 pp.) |