ANTH 1120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Franz Boas, Margaret Mead, Historical Particularism
2 Oct 2018
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Aims to understand the why and how of human behaviour. Use of the scientific method it search for an objective truth. Considered to be positivists but is moving further from that. Looking at the volunteers to understand them more fundamentally. Needs all the organ to work properly or whole body ( or society) Not linear but rather a road map that changes the course of culture and societies. She felt like a adolescence was a pretty awkward time in life and wanted to see if that"s created by american culture or biology and if its different in different areas then it must be the culture. She looked at samoa"s culture to see the difference. Saw that samoa had freedom and a easy transition from children to adults. The behaviour of the samoan"s proved to her that adolescence is culturally not biologically culturally not biologically. Said no one had long relationships and sexually were free, everyone was peaceful and free.
