ANT335H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Margaret Mead, Parenting, Mpondo People
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Write a summary of the article and state your opinion on it. Have an opinion on the article and support it. Draw upon other ideas from the readings we have read already. Cite the article and at least one course reading. If you want to do more reading you can, but be aware of the page limit!! If we are talking about gender inequality on a global scale we have to look at it through intersections within a nation; ability/race etc. Sex vs gender; sex is biological and gender is created by culture. Coming of age in samoa - adolescence for young women. Written in the 20s where in america, teenhood for women was considered turbulent. Samoa and discovered that teenhood is different everywhere. Questions of whether her field work was accurate or not. Women in the studies of anthropologists were often disregarded because men were studied as the basic subjects of culture.
