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Margaret Mead (December 16, 1901 – November 15, 1978) ... In this way, the book tackled the question of nature versus nurture, whether adolescence and its ...
The 1st edition PDF is in the public domain. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a 1928 book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily adolescent girls – on the island of Taʻū in American Samoa.
TED talk Archived 2011-10-22 at the Wayback Machine by Steven Pinker about his book The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature; Margaret Mead and Samoa. Review of the nature vs. nurture debate triggered by Mead's book "Coming of Age in Samoa."
What I mean is that thanks in large part to Margaret Mead's vision of science as something which can help everyone in the world, psychedelics were initially thought as a tool that could be very ...
John Derek Freeman (15 August 1916 – 6 July 2001) [1] was a New Zealand anthropologist known [2] for his criticism of Margaret Mead's work on Samoan society, as described in her 1928 ethnography Coming of Age in Samoa.
Nature versus nurture is a long-standing debate in biology and society about the relative influence on human beings of their genetic inheritance (nature) and the environmental conditions of their development .
Some anthropological and sociological theorists that take a cultural relativist perspective may deny the existence of cultural universals: the extent to which these universals are "cultural" in the narrow sense, or in fact biologically inherited behavior is an issue of "nature versus nurture".
Margaret Mead, a cultural anthropologist, studied the Chambri in 1933. Her influential book Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies became a major cornerstone of the women's liberation movement , since it claimed that females had significant and dominant roles in Chambri society.