ANTH 112 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Margaret Mead, Arapesh Languages, Oedipus Complex
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Combines with genes to produce personality: we are all encultured diferently. Psychology looks at normalcy: within psychology and social sciences, there is a shared interest in nature vs. nurture. Do we behave a certain way because of our genes or because of our upbringing. Anthropology gets involved due to interest in global culture variaion. Freud was studying adult personaliies and children"s upbringing. Diferent methods of upbringing should lead to diferent adult personaliies. How much of our personality is genes and how much is learned behaviour: margaret mead took up these studies with her ieldwork, mead is considered the mother of anthropology (on of ) Her work is held at the library of congress. She took great interest in gender roles: worked in the south paciic (new guinea, with the arapesh people, mead found that men and women were co-operaive and unaggressive.
