Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist, frequently featured in mass media as a popularizer of anthropological insights for modern Western life. She was a champion of broadened sexual mores within the context of Western religious life. Her reports on the purportedly healthy attitude towards sex in traditional South Pacific and Southeast Asian cultures significantly informed the '60s "sexual revolution." Though a respected academic, her work was eventually, and controversially, challenged.
Focusing on cultural relativism, this collection of essays offers a framework for future ethnological surveys in anthropology. It aims to deepen understanding and provide a basis for planning research within contemporary society. The assembled statements serve as a guide for scholars looking to explore and analyze cultural contexts more effectively.
For more than a generation, this pioneering book has been an indispensable introduction to the field of anthropology. Here, in her study of three sharply contrasting cultures, Benedict puts forward her famous thesis that a people's culture is an integrated whole, a "personality writ large." Includes a preface from Margaret Mead.
Margaret Mead's exploration of the Manus people in New Guinea reveals their family dynamics, views on sex, marriage, child-rearing, and spirituality during a transformative period in 1928. Living in a remote fishing village, she documented a culture untouched by modern influences, drawing parallels to contemporary Western society. This reissue, celebrating her centennial, includes introductions by Howard Gardner and her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, highlighting its significant anthropological contributions and the vivid portrayal of a lost way of life.
The book offers a profound exploration of gender dynamics through the lens of renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead. It provides insightful analysis relevant to contemporary discussions on the battle of the sexes. The new introduction by Helen Fisher, Ph.D., enhances its relevance, connecting Mead's findings to modern societal issues. This classic work remains a vital resource for understanding the complexities of gender roles and relationships.
Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.
The book details Margaret Mead's eight-month study of the Mountain Arapesh people in Papua New Guinea during 1931-1932. It explores their unique culture characterized by simplicity, sensitivity, and a strong sense of cooperation among community members. Mead's observations provide valuable insights into the social dynamics and values of the Arapesh, highlighting their distinct way of life in contrast to Western norms.
The substance of this book was given as the Jacob Gimbel lectures in sex psychology under the auspices of Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco, California, November, 1946.
Kindheit und Jugend in Samoa
Kindheit und Jugend in Neuguinea
"Das Verhältnis der Geschlechter zueinander bleibt ein heftig debattiertes Thema. Da sollte man zu den Klassikern greifen: Bereits in den zwanziger Jahren dieses Jahrhunderts sammelte die Anthropologin Margaret Mead bei Feldforschungen auf Samoa, Neu-Guinea und Bali Material für das vorliegende Werk, das noch immer Bewegung bringt in festgefahrene Diskussionen. Denn Mead stellte schon damals fest, daß Eigenheiten und Charakter jedes Individuums unabhängig von seiner Geschlechtszugehörigkeit in jeder Gesellschaft anerkannt werden sollten. Eine unerläßliche Lektüre für alle, die sich weiterhin über "Männer" und "Frauen", wie sie wirklich sind -- und warum das so ist --, streiten wollen."--Back cover
Die psychischen Fähigkeiten des Menschen. Neue Erkenntnisse.
Unter Forschern wuchs sie auf: Margaret Mead ist 1901 in New Jersey als erste Tochter eines Wirtschaftsprofessors und einer Solziologin geboren. Forschungsaufenthalte in Samoa, Neu-Guinea und Bali brachten ihr als Ethnologin, kaum dreißigjährig, weltweiten Ruhm. Seitedem hat sie immer wieder weise und engagiert zum Verhältnis zwischen Frau, Mann und Kind in Amerika wie Europa Stellung bezogen. So einfühlsam und leidenschaftlich klar, wie Margaret Mead ferne Kulturen geschildert hat, erzählt sie in "Brombeerblüten im Winter" ihr prall gefülltes Leben. Wissenschaftlerin oder Frau? Für Margaret Mead war dies nie eine Entscheidungsfrage: die eine Ebene bereichert die andere. Drei Ehen, Mutter- und Großmutterwerden: für sie Stationen eines unaufhörlichen emotionalen und intellektuellen Wachstums, das sie, eine wahrhaft befreite Frau, ihren Lesern hier noch einmal farbig vorlebt.
Dílem o pohlaví a temperamentu se uzavírá i vrcholí oceánský, „jihomořský“ cyklus, trilogie, jež z Meadové učinila jednou provždy nejen autoritativní antropologickou osobnost, nýbrž otevřela cestu i k mediální, veřejné dimenzi své autorky. Tato práce je zkoumáním, jak tři primitivní společenství seskupují své sociální postoje podle temperamentu (tedy podle rysů připsaných každému pohlaví jako příslušně „maskulinních“ nebo „femininních“), aby nakonec vyústila v často citovaný ultrarelativistický závěr, že mnohé, ne-li všechny osobnostní rysy, ať už mužské, nebo ženské, jsou s pohlavím spojeny právě tak málo jako oděv, mravy nebo pokrývka hlavy.
