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DESCRIPTION:May 1-3\, 2026\n“We won’t have a society if we destroy the 
 environment.” Back in the day\, everyone was familiar with Margaret Mead
  (1901–1978)\, a cultural anthropologist who stepped into the role of pu
 blic intellectual and brought the country up to date on latest thought con
 cerning humankind and its cultures. Mead’s specialties were adolescence 
 and sexuality\, and her name was made in 1928\, with the publication of th
 e hit ethnographic study Coming of Age in Samoa\, which wasn’t without c
 ontroversy. Mead continued to do extensive field work and published many b
 ooks. She was also a curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natura
 l History from 1946 to 1969. Hence the Margaret Mead Film Festival. This y
 ear’s festival offers nine movies over three days. Here’s a small prev
 iew. Time and Water is a eulogy for an Icelandic glacier—a poetic respon
 se to the climate crisis. In The Oldest Person in the World\, the human su
 bject keeps changing. And Daughters of the Forest follows “two Indigenou
 s mycologists charting new possibilities for ecological coexistence throug
 h mushrooms.” As you may know\, mushrooms are an exciting new player in 
 the creation of sustainable materials. And their mycelium networks communi
 cate with trees. If that sounds like the premise for a John Cage compositi
 on\, well\, he was a devoted mycologist.
LOCATION:American Museum of Natural History\, 200 Central Park West\, New Y
 ork\, NY 10024\, United States
SUMMARY:2026 Margaret Mead Film Festival
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 lm-festival
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