AN202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Robert Lowie
26 Jan 2015
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Last friday video: franz boas (the shackles of tradition)! Boas: mental construct aspect of how people put things together : psychic unity -> race/ human potential, environment (nurture learning) over heredity (nature), anthropology as humanistic science, mental -> psychological constructs! 5) negative side: boas part of anthropology that thought stuff was important more than people! Margaret mead - most famous north american there ever was. Most famous female anthro- pologist int he world. took anthropology from academic to the people. popular anthropology. Credit for making anthropology a relevant subject that people can understand and recognize. 1928 her rst book; coming of age in samoa. she was interested because she heard they had easier sex lives. she"s also been criticized a lot about not having a legitimate view. Carried on with theme of emotion and sexuality ! 1930 she wrote a book about raising children growing up in new guinea !
