Coming Of Age Video (Margaret Meade) Only Source Is Video
09/28/05 Anthc101
Coming of Age Video
Margaret Mead is one of the pioneers of Social Anthropology. She was one of
the first trained anthropologists of North America. She was taken under the wing of
another established anthropologist, Franz Boaz, and learned much from him. While she
wanted to work across the Atlantic, Boaz suggested she stay closer to home. Mead chose
Tower Island, one of the Samoan Islands. She set out to study adolescents. She wanted
to learn whether much of the turmoil and hardships experienced by children growing up
was characteristic among all adolescents, or if environment was chiefly responsible. This
goes back to the much debated "Nature or Nurture" theory.
In 1925, at the age of 23 she spent nine months among the Samoan people. She
observed and studied many female teenagers. She learned that for the people of......
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