Margaret Mead: A Portrait By a Friend (1978)

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

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.

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