ANTH 202 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Margaret Mead, Franz Boas, Androcentrism
14 Feb 2018
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Readings: ch. 3 & ch. 6 & the commodification of intimacy: Part 1: anthropology and the study of gender. Anthropology was for a long period in its history focused solely on men and their practices excluding women or making them peripheral this approach is called androcentric. She was deeply influenced by cultural relativism, the teachings of franz boas and the work of ruth benedict (patterns of culture). Mead was one of the first researchers to suggest that certain assumptions about gender differences were socially constructed as opposed to biologically determined. With her fieldwork and accompanying published works, notably. Coming of age in samoa (1928) and introduction to sex and temperament in. Three primitive societies (1935), she contested gender roles by asserting that masculine and feminine characteristics are in fact conditioned by socio- cultural rather than biological processes. In her study of girls in coming of.
