ANT370H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Margaret Mead, Premarital Sex, Puebloan Peoples
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Lecture 9 - personhood: from culture and personality to. Italians are loud and boisterous, french are artsy lovers, etc: culture creates personality which creates people who grow up and perpetuate that specific culture/personality. Culture is personality writ large. each culture selects a few characteristics to be the normative and desirable personality traits within that culture: chooses from the great arch of personality traits. Argued that pueblo cultures emphasised restraint and calm whereas great plains cultures emphasised abandoned wildness: broad generalizations about cultures and the personalities they, margaret mead (coming of age in samoa 1928) value. Became famous (or infamous) for asserting that adolescent samoan girls are permitted to engage in casual, premarital sex, and that ultimately most marry and have normal, healthy, functional lives as wives and mothers. Tends not to claim that accomplishments are due to their own hard work and talents; due to the care and support of others. Self-esteem, self-confidence, finding yourself, self-actualization, self self self.
