ANTHRO 3AC Lecture Notes - Margaret Mead, Aka People, Sigmund Freud
8 Feb 2014
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Samoa adolescence = nonexistent stage of development; good because there was a smooth transition from childhood into adulthood; didn"t have the same kinds of emotional turmoil as. J. stanley hall coined the world: criticism: All girls can"t be the same, not enough diversity. Mead assumed that all sexual tensions and fears experiencing would come out in that period of life. Perhaps these feelings were repressed and would come out later. She has an appendix in which she talks about deviant individuals aka people who didn"t conform to people of that society which was the same ratio of mentally ill in us. Literary style she romanticized things a lot; it appealed to the public and sexually repressed public (john) derek freeman was hella cruel. Making and unmaking of an anthropological myth - he was a sociobiologist (claims that many social activities and social structure and who we are comes from biology) and that mead was under influence of.
