Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead
Margaret Meadwas an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bachelor's degree at Barnard College in New York City and her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Columbia University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth16 December 1901
CityPhiladelphia, PA
CountryUnited States of America
order immigration dominance
American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is length of time in the fishbowl. The oldest resident picks on the newest resident, and if the newest resident is removed to a new bowl, he, as oldest resident, will pick on the newcomers.
order want what-you-want
Be who you really are, do what you want to do, in order to have what you really want.
sex order differences
Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.
order culture humans
in all cultures, human beings - in order to be human - must understand the nonhuman.
order two promise
A woman, even a brilliant woman, must have two qualities in order to fulfill her promise: more energy than mere mortals, and the ability to outwit her culture.
civilization evil way
we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.
beautiful respect animal
...recognize and respect Earth's beautiful systems of balance, between the presence of animals on land, the fish in the sea, birds in the air, mankind, water, air, and land. Most importantly there must always be awareness of the actions by people that can disturb this precious balance.
capacity cooperate ruined
Having two bathrooms ruined the capacity to cooperate
hard mediocre men possible women
Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible
drama invention
As Significant as the Invention of Drama or the Novel.
articulate brand chosen economic filled generation gone peace society unable until variety
A society which is clamoring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable t
anybody creeps family matter
No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps in
avoidance biting half joking natives relationships teeth
The natives are superficially agreeable, but they go in for cannibalism, headhunting, infanticide, incest, avoidance and joking relationships, and biting lice in half with their teeth
children oedipus parent
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.