Coming of age in Samoa
by Margaret Mead · first published 1924
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The classic anthropological study describes what it was like in the 1920s for girls growing up in the culture of the Samoan Islands, offering provocative insights into such topics as childhood, gender roles, and culture.
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…out of academia, so these issues never get researched properly? http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/08/science/08tier.html?_r=0 and that margaret mead was basically a fraud? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Freeman (margaret mead is an early feminist)
on “Stay-at-home dad” ↗Seems like a lot of wishful thinking and projection of current ideology, a la Margaret Mead in "Coming of Age in Samoa" of which she later admitted she fabricated much.
on “The Real Amazons” ↗> and that margaret mead was basically a fraud? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Freeman Did you even read your own linked articles? Generally, Freeman's critique has not been accepted in the anthropological community. Several Samoan scholars…
on “Stay-at-home dad” ↗"of which she later admitted she fabricated much." That is stunningly inaccurate. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Mead http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa At most there is a wildly controversial claim from another anthropologist that Mead's subjects told her fabrications.
on “The Real Amazons” ↗…principal. There is an old book, about life in Samoa where kids are raised by the village, and they do OK. Once they reach puberty = come of age, sex emerges and it is far different to the USA experience. The book, Coming of Age in Samoa, by Margaret Mead has been criticised as it prgresses into the sexual years, but it stand up well for the junior years - albeit there is a monoculture. To sum up, we need to solve this problem so our…
on “It’s Time We Dealt with White Supremacy in Tech” ↗I believe something similar happened with Margaret Mead. In "Coming of Age in Samoa", Mead made the wild (and completely bogus) claim that, in the state of "nature", adultery is not a problem. It's all free love, man. She ostensibly drew on what Samoans were telling her, but what they…
on “Sama-Bajau “sea nomads” people gene mutations allow them to free-dive 13 minutes” ↗…Sociology lives only on evidence. Absurd and false. Shall I tell you the Margaret Mead story, or can I rely on you to educate yourself? Mead's career hinged on a ridiculous study that, in the form of "Coming of Age in Samoa", became gospel among sociologists, even after those she originally interviewed confessed that they invented what they told her. It was a complete fabrication, yet it made Mead's name in the field. The…
on “What Makes Malcolm Gladwell Fascinating” ↗…Sociology lives only on evidence. >Absurd and false. Shall I tell you the Margaret Mead story, or can I rely on you to educate yourself? Mead's career hinged on a ridiculous study that, in the form of "Coming of Age in Samoa", became gospel among sociologists, even after those she originally interviewed confessed that they invented what they told her. It was a complete fabrication, yet it made Mead's name in the field. The…
on “What Makes Malcolm Gladwell Fascinating” ↗Coming of Age in Samoa is controversial but the claim that Mead was actively lying is pretty untenable. The main point of contention is that some of Mead's subjects, 40 years and a conversion to Christianity later, denied…
on “Wikipedia users edits over 90k uses of “comprised of”” ↗there's a summary of the controversy in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa#The_Mea... which makes it quite clear that absolutely nothing is quite clear
on “Turn On, Tune In, Write Code” ↗…Sociology lives only on evidence. >Absurd and false. Shall I tell you the Margaret Mead story, or can I rely on you to educate yourself? Mead's career hinged on a ridiculous study that, in the form of "Coming of Age in Samoa", became gospel among sociologists, even after those she originally interviewed confessed that they invented what they told her. It was a complete fabrication, yet it made Mead's name in the field. The…
on “What Makes Malcolm Gladwell Fascinating” ↗