I stumbled across your videos while thinking through a paper I need to start writing today. I am an Anthropology major at a small university and it helped me clear my headspace and get into the "writing" groove. The way you deliver the information is excellent and your voice is calming. Thank-you for helping me this afternoon.
Great video! I found your channel looking for information about Margaret Mead. Thank you very much! I am a Spanish plastic artist and art teacher residing between Spain and Germany I follow you from now on
Thank you very much for all your videos. I am an Italian high school teacher. I'm drawing a lot of inspiration from you for my anthropology classes in English.
What this is so amazing!! Anthropology is a topic more people should be learning about and I’m so glad to hear my videos have been helpful. This is great!!
Hi, that is so sweet thank you! And yes!! He has been on my "to do list" for a little while now haha. I feel like I can't only have done Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict and not do Franz Boas. Thank you for the suggestion!
Wow I'm super excited to read Coming of age in Samoa :D sounds really interesting - it is so fascinating to me how attitudes differ from culture to culture especially around topics that can be so taboo in some cultures!
I lived in Samoa. Actually, I disagree based on the fact that she didn’t know the language or culture enough to correctly understand what she observed. Samoans that I met are still very upset by her book b/c of all the inaccuracies. There was no fact checking back then. Her conclusions were often wrong and ultimately harmful to Samoans. She actually (in my opinion) was guilty of her own cultural bias. Sadly, I would never have known this if I hadn’t lived there.
That was a great video. Greatings from Poland. I studied Mead in my anthropology class. I will think about what other famous thinker a video would be nice to see:))
Years later, one of the girls she interviewed, said they lied to Mead. Local Samoans also took offence to the insinuation their culture allowed free love. She didn't like the nuclear family or Christianity. In fact her ideas are associated with Lucis Trust and the ideas of Alice Bailey. You've got to look under the veil.
This is really interesting, thank you for sharing. Mead's work definitely does not go without criticism and error. This video was more of Mead at a glance but I would like to do a video eventually that explores more of the issues with anthropology and anthropology's history
@@AliviaBrownI'm sure you've already learned this by now but for anyone else reading this: No, they didn't. This lie about Mead's research - more or less the work of one tireless crybaby, Derek Freeman - has itself been widely debunked. Though "debunked" might not be the right word, since most actual anthropologists didn't believe Freeman's nonsense in the first place. In the interviews Freeman paid someone else to conduct with one of the women he believed had inadvertently hoaxed Mead - interviews that were not publicly available until after Freeman's death - the woman was clearly losing her memory, to the point that even Freeman himself annotated his copies of the interviews with questions regarding the more blatant inaccuracies attested to by the supposed hoaxer. Nonetheless, Freeman ran with what portions he could edit into coherency to get his fifteen minutes of fame. It's a testament to Mead's influence and Freeman's irrelevance that, even in the lies told about her work, people never remember that scumbags name.
There is a variety of information that actually dismissed her research too. Especially with her observation of only 12 girls, having only a 500 word vocabulary of the language which she had started she learned in six weeks, and other points. Margaret also having extreme left ideology herself too. The timelines also with her contacts through the years with many Russian relationships was interesting though there is more here I will need to research further. Interesting take though.
I was actually looking for a video on the subject of what Margaret Mead got wrong. I do understand now how Ms. meads work on gender has contributed to the idea that gender is a socially contrived concept and that 54 genders is sustainable in modern western society.
I met Margaret Mead. I was inspired to study cultural anthropology. Unfortunately none of my courses used her work. I was bad with money so my studies were shortened. But I have never stopped learning. College Antrho all about becoming a teacher. I could never do that. I want to learn. Not teach. No one would listen to me either. Maybe not. At the time I was against teaching. I had a lot of good pictures of her with her famous forked stick. But I lost them.
Derek Feeeman spent two years in Somoa and wrote a refutation on her thesis. Oh the humanity… what an outcry from the anthropology community! It went against the narrative. And it was not just Derek Freeman who disagreed with her thesis…there were others.
Currently reading coming of age in samoa and wow there are lots and lots of triggers. I respect her for paving the road. If course being one of the first comes with mistakes and errors.
