![]() Más aún: actualmente, los escritos de Margaret Mead merecen el calificativo de «clásicos», puesto que su dedicación al estudio de las relaciones humanas en las tribus primitivas la han convertido en un punto de referencia inevitable. Desde 1928, las obras de Margaret Mead resultan elementos indispensables en cualquier bibliografía antropológica. ![]() Interiores: ligeramente tostados fecha de adquisición de ant. Cubiertas: mínimamente fatigadas, con descoloridos y leves roces. Fue, así, precursora en la utilización del concepto de «género». Mead introdujo, en 1935, la idea revolucionaria de que, por ser la especie humana enormemente maleable, los papeles y las conductas sexuales varían según los contextos socioculturales. según la cual la división sexual del trabajo en la familia moderna se debía a la diferencia innata entre el comportamiento instrumental (público, productivo) de los hombres y expresivo de las mujeres, y en su estudio comparativo Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies. En sus investigaciones etnográficas de las décadas de 1920 y 1930, puso en entredicho la visión sexista biologista que prevalecía en las ciencias sociales en EE.UU. Margaret Mead fue una antropóloga y poeta estadounidense. Interiores: sin desbarbar hojas algo tostadas, pero en buenas condiciones. Cubiertas: algo tostadas y levemente fatigadas. Sobrecubiertas: fatigadas, con roturas, manchas y ajadas. Obras de Sociología y Ciencias Sociales, II. Rich in drama, conflict, friendship, and love,Gods of the Upper Air is a brilliant and groundbreaking history of American progress and the opening of the modern mind. Their revolutionary findings would go on to inspire the fluid conceptions of identity we know today. Together, they mapped civilizations from the American South to the South Pacific and from Caribbean islands to Manhattan's city streets, and unearthed an essential fact buried by centuries of prejudice: that humanity is an undivided whole. Boas's students were some of the century's most colorful figures and unsung visionaries: Margaret Mead, the outspoken field researcher whose Coming of Age in Samoa is among the most widely read works of social science of all time Ruth Benedict, the great love of Mead's life, whose research shaped post-Second World War Japan Ella Deloria, the Dakota Sioux activist who preserved the traditions of Native Americans on the Great Plains and Zora Neale Hurston, whose studies under Boas fed directly into her now classic novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God. In Gods of the Upper Air, a masterful narrative history of radical ideas and passionate lives, Charles King shows how these intuitions led to a fundamental reimagining of human diversity. Cultures did not come in neat packages labeled 'primitive' or 'advanced.' What counted as a family, a good meal, or even common sense was a product of history and circumstance, not of nature. Racial categories, he insisted, were biological fictions. But Columbia University professor Franz Boas looked at the data and decided everyone was wrong. Gebraucht - Sehr gut Leichte Lagerspuren -2020 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award WinnerFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardFrom an award-winning historian comes a dazzling history of the birth of cultural anthropology and the adventurous scientists who pioneered it a sweeping chronicle of discovery and the fascinating origin story of our multicultural world.A century ago, everyone knew that people were fated by their race, sex, and nationality to be more or less intelligent, nurturing, or warlike. ![]() ![]() d) her Samoan research showed that biological changes accompanying adolescence are experienced by youth in every culture.Paperback. ![]() c) the stress and anxiety of American adolescence were not experienced by Samoan youth, who grew up in a different cultural environment. b) the stress and anxiety of American adolescence were felt equally as strongly among Samoan youth. Margaret Mead's book Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) provided an example of cultural determinism in that a) cultural behaviors and biological changes of Samoan and American youth developed at the same ages. d) human biological processes, such as puberty, are the same all over the world. c) learned cultural roles are randomly assigned, and are not dependent on cultural differences. b) learned cultural roles are more important than biology in most types of behavior. Her fieldwork provided evidence that a) biological instincts dictate the way that people behave. Margaret Mead's book, Coming of Age in Samoa (1925), was an important contribution to the nature-nurture debate, arguing that teenagers experience less stress in Samoa than in the United States. ![]()
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