Question: What American cultural anthropologist earned her Ph.D. from Columbia University and completed a comparative study of tribal men and women on seven Pacific islands?
Context: W. Phillips Shively is Professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.  He has also taught at the University of Oregon and Yale University, and has been a visiting professor at the University of Oslo.  His research deals with the comparative study of elections, and with methods of data analysis.  He is the author (with Chris Achen) of Cross-Level Inference and of a textbook, The Craft of Political Research first published in 1974 now in its eighth edition, He is the author of text book Power and Choice : Introduction to Political Science now on its 14th edition.  as well as numerous articles on elections and on methods of analysis.  He has served as editor of the American Journal of Political Science and as chair and principal investigator of the Comparative Study of Electoral Systems project, as well as various administrative positions at the University of Minnesota.  His true love is natural history.  influential research methods text "The Craft of Political Research" Richard Allan Shweder (born 1945) is an American cultural anthropologist and a figure in cultural psychology.  He is currently Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Human Development in the Department of Comparative Human Development at the University of Chicago. Helen Frances Codere (September 10, 1917 – June 5, 2009) was an American cultural anthropologist who received her BA from the University of Minnesota in 1939 and her PhD in anthropology from Columbia University where she studied with Ruth Benedict.  She is best known for her work with the Kwakwaka'wakw people of coastal British Columbia, Canada, known formerly as the "Kwakiutl." Alfred Louis Kroeber (June 11, 1876 – October 5, 1960) was an American cultural anthropologist.  He received his Ph.D. under Franz Boas at Columbia University in 1901, the first doctorate in anthropology awarded by Columbia.  He was also the first professor appointed to the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley.  He played an integral role in the early days of its Museum of Anthropology, where he served as Director from 1909 through 1947.  Kroeber provided detailed information about Ishi, the last surviving member of the Yahi people, whom he studied over a period of years.  He was the father of the acclaimed novelist, poet, and writer of short stories Ursula Kroeber Le Guin. Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s.  She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University. Gayle S. Rubin (born 1949) is an American cultural anthropologist best known as an activist and theorist of sex and gender politics.  She has written on a range of subjects including feminism, sadomasochism, prostitution, pedophilia, pornography and lesbian literature, as well as anthropological studies and histories of sexual subcultures, especially focused in urban contexts.  She is an associate professor of anthropology, women's studies, and comparative literature at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Male and Female is a 1949 comparative study of tribal men and women on seven Pacific islands and men and women in the contemporary (late 1940s) United States by anthropologist Margaret Mead. Carol R. Ember (13 May 1948) is an American cultural anthropologist, Cross-cultural researcher and a writer of books on anthropology.  She is now the Director of the Summer Institutes in Comparative Anthropological Research at the Yale University, apart from holding the post of Executive Director in the Human Relations Area of the University. Robert Lemelson is an American cultural anthropologist, ethnographic filmmaker and philanthropist.  Lemelson received his M.A. from the University of Chicago and Ph.D. from the Department of Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles.  Lemelson's area of specialty is transcultural psychiatry; Southeast Asian Studies, particularly Indonesia; and psychological and medical anthropology.  He currently is a research anthropologist in the Semel Institute of Neuroscience UCLA, and an adjunct professor of Anthropology at UCLA.  His scholarly work has appeared in numerous journals and books.  Lemelson founded Elemental Productions in 2008, a documentary production company, and has directed and produced numerous ethnographic films.  His blog "Psychocultural Cinema" contains numerous blog-posts and edited film works. Lee D. Baker is an American cultural anthropologist, author, and Duke University faculty member.  His current titles at Duke are Professor of Cultural Anthropology, African & African American Studies, and Sociology as well as Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Vice Provost.  He taught at Columbia University from 1997 to 2000.  Baker has authored two books and more than sixty academic articles, reviews, and chapters related to cultural anthropology, among other fields.
Answer: Margaret Mead