American anthropologist (1901-1978)
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She walked into remote villages with a notebook and came back with arguments that exploded American certainties about sex, adolescence, and what it meant to be male or female — then spent decades as the one anthropologist Middle America actually listened to.
Margaret Mead published Coming of Age in Samoa in 1928, a study of adolescence and sexuality that made her famous at twenty-six. Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies followed in 1935, dismantling assumptions about gender through fieldwork in Papua New Guinea. She ranged widely after that — the Omaha people, Manus, Bali, even an ethnography of American life written to rally support for World War II — and became curator of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History in 1946. By mid-century she was anthropology's most audible public voice, writing a monthly Redbook column and…
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[Mead described the Arapesh as a culture in which both sexes were] placid and contented, unaggressive and noninitiatory, noncompetitive and responsive, warm, docile, and trusting.
Chief among our gains must be reckoned this possibility of choice, the recognition of many possible ways of life, where other civilizations have recognized only one.
It [this book] is, very simply, an account of how three primitive societies have grouped their social attitudes towards temperament about the very obvious facts of sex-difference.
Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.
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