Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend

The way to be a citizen of the world is to be at home in a lot of places.

Overview

Jean Rouch filmed this loving and humorous portrait of anthropologist and filmmaker Margaret Mead in September 1977 while he was a guest of the first Margaret Mead Film Festival. As both a friend and colleague, Rouch reveals a glimpse of the legendary Mead in her later years.

Production

Comité du film Éthnographique, The American Museum of Natural History