Word: anthropologist
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Here is material for everyone: inscriptions for the philologist, man's life cycle fully illustrated for the anthropologist, and objects of beauty for the lover of art. Whether it be the reliefs of the Assyrians from Khorsabad, the delicate gold and lapis of the Sumerians at Ur of the Chaldies, or the subtle modeled terra cotta of the Houri at Nuzi does not matter much. Each has its distinct and separate appeal...
...Youthful Anthropologist Margaret Mead (Mrs. Reo Fortune), no bookworm theorist, believes in getting her data at first hand. Two years ago she published an account of primitive adolescence (Coming of Age in Samoa). Now she reports how children grow up among the Manus of the Admiralty Islands...
...thatched huts set on piles in a lagoon. Children learn to swim, to use a boat, almost before they can walk. For six months Margaret Mead and her husband lived among the Manus, learnt their language, their tabus, took photographs, asked questions, saw as much as they were allowed. Anthropologist Mead's conclusion is that among the Manus only the children have a really good time. Children do exactly as they please; parent's may plead, they never discipline. But with marriage a hard life begins. The married couple have never seen each other till their wedding, rarely like each...
...Anthropologist Mead is no preacher, but her comparative study in anthropology is pointed, needs no extra sharpening...
...Author. Margaret Mead, 28, daughter of Economics Professor Edward Sherwood Mead (University of Pennsylvania), wife of British Anthropologist Reo Fortune, is Assistant Curator of the American Museum of Natural History. Between voyages of anthropological discovery she lives in Manhattan. She has no children...