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Browse the Margaret Mead Series published by Berghahn

 

(Originally Published 12/14/)

To commemorate Margaret Mead&#;s birthday this month, we&#;re honored to share a short piece from her daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Bateson is an anthropologist and the author of many books, including Composing a Life. As she notes below, marks the 91st anniversary of Mead’s trip to Samoa in , when Mead did her fieldwork resulting in the seminal book Coming of Age in Samoa. Working closely with Mary Catherine Bateson and also Professor William O. Beeman, Berghahn Books republished six volumes of Mead’s writing, with new introductions, in the early ’s.

We&#;re pleased to announce new discounted prices on all titles in the Margaret Mead: The Study of Contemporary Western Culture book series, and we&#;re offering FREE access to this chapter titled Talks with Social Scientists: Margaret Mead on What is a Culture? What is a Civilization? from Studying Contemporary Western Societyfor a limited time.

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by Mary Catherine Bateson

 

Margaret Mead was the most famous anthropologist in the United States in her lifetime and arguably remains the best-known anthropologist ever. She was born on December 16 in and died in , but many of her writings were reissued with new i

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The Life and Meaning of Margaret Mead

Part of the Boasian project was to break down what seemed to be universal laws of humanity. Finding “negative instances” of phenomena that were perceived to hold for all people everywhere would support cultural determinism because it would show that culture, not biology, was responsible for our differences.

G. Stanley Hall, the American psychologist and educator, had made the study of adolescence a topic of serious enquiry. He subscribed to a form of biological determinism that he followed to its eugenic endpoint. (He was a member of the American Eugenics Research Organization and a passionate anti-Semite.) One of his many widely accepted ideas was that adolescence is, by biological necessity, a time of Sturm und Drang —German for “storm and stress.” (We keep a kernel of this idea in the too-oft-used phrase “raging hormones.”) To put it unscientifically, adolescence is the pits. Hall held that this was true for everyone, everywhere, in all times. The very biology that makes us human also makes adolescence hell.

Mead’s study of the Samoans scrutinized this biological universalism by focusing on teenage girls. “Because I was a woman and could hope for greater intimacy in working with girls rather than with boys,” she wrote, &#;and becau