Word: samoa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...makes living on a New Hampshire farm seem easy." (She tried that too.) A less tangible disadvantage is that boat people lose their old landlubber friends. Also, banks and stores sometimes look on a local Sinbad as a dubious credit risk. After all, he/she may cast off for Samoa or Sardinia on the whim of a wind...
...Mead accomplished what few anthropologists have ever attained--public fame. She helped popularize what for most Americans was an obscure field dealing with foreign cultures in far-flung places. Not only was she one of the first anthropologists to write for the general public but in her fieldwork in Samoa, New Guinea, Bali and even South Dakota she also attempted to integrate psychology and anthropology into a more all-inclusive social science...
...with degrees in sociology and anthropology from Barnard, Mead wanted to study social change in another culture. Franz Boaz, the dean of American anthropology and Mead's teacher, directed her to look at adolescence and sex roles in Samoa instead. Out of the Samoa experience emerged Growing Up in Samoa, a bestseller. But along with instant success came instant criticism that was to dog her throughout her career. Mead, many anthropologists argued, over-simplified, over-generalized, drew conclusions from sketchy evidence and interjected herself and her psychological interpretations too often and too much...
...public loved it, though. After Samoa Mead continued to travel and write, occasionally turning out technical monographs to placate her vociferous peers, but more often than not producing books for popular consumption. True to Boaz, she examined sex roles in different cultures, rejecting the idea that one predetermined set of universal roles can be applied to all cultures indiscriminately. However, she did not limit herself to discussing sex roles or exotic cultures. She voiced opinions and passed judgments on any number of things in Western society, from marijuana to marriage, and her outspokenness drew more fire from critics who thought...
...Margaret Mead's prodigious energy that launched her on a career that spanned more than half a century. In 1925 she sailed for Samoa with Boas' blessing and $1,000 from her father, and spent nine months observing the adolescent girls of three small coastal villages in the Manua Islands. The result of her study was published three years later as Coming of Age in Samoa...