Question

Margaret Mead's talent for blending fieldwork with dynamic writing about gender roles -- which made her a spokesperson/cultural translator for the 1960s generation -- provided her with the authority and opportunity to become an important ________ anthropologist.

Answer 1

The answer is: cultural anthropologist.

Cultural anthropology is the branch of anthropology concerned with the study of human societies and cultures and their development.

Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist  who wrote about anthropology and its holistic approach to the human species. She wrote about how human development, also sexual, could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. She compared gender roles in different societies, concentrating heavily on the regions of South Pacific and Southeast Asia.

She was a proponent of broadening sexual conventions and her thinking influenced the sexual revolution in the 1960's.