aperey (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} aperey) wrote,@ 2005-04-27 15:04:00 |
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Anthropological Anecdotes - II
Second Anecdote.
When Margaret Mead was describing the purpose of her research in Samoa, she told her class that there was so much turmoil in adolescence in the United States, that there was a question of whether the turmoil is biological. If it's biological, there should be the same adolescent turmoil in every culture. She went to Samoa to see if it was there.
She found it was not.
Coming of Age in Samoa was an attempt to understand why.
Second Anecdote.
When Margaret Mead was describing the purpose of her research in Samoa, she told her class that there was so much turmoil in adolescence in the United States, that there was a question of whether the turmoil is biological. If it's biological, there should be the same adolescent turmoil in every culture. She went to Samoa to see if it was there.
She found it was not.
Coming of Age in Samoa was an attempt to understand why.
