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Tag: Margaret Mead
Margaret Mead y el primer signo de civilización
Read Time:2 Minute, 57 Second Manuel Carmona Manuel Carmona “La naturaleza humana es potencialmente agresiva y destructiva y potenc…
The earliest origins of that one Margaret Mead quote
via goalcast Margaret Mead’s quote about how a small group of citizens can change the world can be found all over the Internet. But did she actually say…
A piece for Anthropology Day
Margaret Mead Imagined Different Futures By Samuel Gerald Collins In the face of climate disaster, a continuing pandemic, and endless global conflict, it’s difficult to be optimistic about…
Franz Boas und die Schule der Rebellinnen. Eine andere Geschichte der Anthropologie
Ist die Geschichte der Anthropologie einfach nur Ausdruck von Kolonialismus und Rassismus? Mit dem aufregenden Buch „Schule der Rebellen“ des Historikers Charles King lässt sich diese trotz allem…
Speak the Names of Those Who Were Lost
Naming can dignify, disparage or even deny one’s social standing. Days after the horrific attack on the Christchurch mosque in New Zealand, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern spoke about…
The Disavowal of Henrietta Schmerler
Anthropology’s decades-long misrepresentation of this story of sexual violence should inform the discipline’s relationship to #MeToo. This is the story of a story that matters to us. In…
The Dude Troll As Anthropologist: A Review of Peter Hempenstall’s “Truth’s Fool: Derek Freeman and the War Over Cultural Anthropology”
The first time I read Coming of Age in Samoa was in my Intro to Anthro course. My teacher — and future mentor — was a social anthropologist…
FreeThink #4: On Art, Creativity, and Bringing Awe back to Anthropology
As you may have noticed, TAL has been on a bit of a break from releasing new episodes. But, the good news is that we have not been…
FreeThink #4: On Art, Creativity, and Bringing Awe back to Anthropology
As you may have noticed, TAL has been on a bit of a break from releasing new episodes. But, the good news is that we have not been…
A Review of “Euphoria” by Lily King
I should say from the outset that I enjoyed the book. I read it in a week. At the literary level, it’s wonderfully written. I didn’t find myself…
The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatter Syllabus Project, Week 16: Victor Kumar on James Baldwin, Margaret Mead and Ethnographic Approaches to Studying Race
The editors of Anthropoliteia are happy to relaunch the second semester of an ongoing series The Anthropoliteia #BlackLivesMatterSyllabus Project, which will mobilize anthropological work as a pedagog…
Can anthropology solve big problems? Imagining Margaret Mead’s response to climate change
Climate change is the nightmare that keeps me up at night. The consensus seems to be that the world will be significantly different within my children’s lifetimes. Many…
Mikroaggresjoner, kjerringer og sensitive kjipinger
Av Sigrid Øvereng Vi kjenner til følelsen, men begrepet er mindre kjent. Det er den lille følelsen som sier “Det … More
Would Margaret Mead tweet? On anthropological questions, social media, and the public sphere
Savage Minds welcomes guest blogger Rachel C. Fleming In my first introductory anthropology class of the year, I spoke a bit about the figures I consider “founding” to…
When Nature Has to Conform to Culture: Highly Sensitive People in a Nonsensitive Culture
Elaine Aron’s book The Highly Sensitive Person was like my own personal Da Vinci Code—riveting, compelling, and totally solved a mystery about myself I didn’t know existed. My…
Public Anthropology
To mark the publication of Public Anthropology: Engaging Social Issues in the Modern World, the author, Edward J. Hedican, provides us with a few thoughts on the impetus…
The Sexual Lives of Others
The sexual lives of others. It may seem a new and tantalizing topic for an ethnography, yet this particular genre has a long history in anthropology. In the…
Anthropological Video Games?
Via The New Yorker: A cluster of teenagers gathered around a small table, and passersby could hear them exclaim, “Asian! Yeah, I knew it!” and “Aryan? That seems…
Margaret Mead: Roles sexuales, temperamento y cultura
1. Antecedentes Margaret Mead y Reo Fortune en Pere, Admiralty Islands, 1918. Library of Congress Margaret Mead empezó a investigar las relaciones entre el temperamento, la cultu…