ANTHRO 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Margaret Mead, Institute Of Historical Research, Ethnology
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Systematic methods are important too: mapping, house to house consensus, behavior observations, and focused interviews with a sample of informants. Margaret mead wrote about the sexual freedom of adolescents in the coming of age in samoa but derek freeman disagreed in his margaret mead and samoa: the making and unmaking of an anthropological myth. They have many ethical obligations to the people they study, their colleagues, to the public and world community, and even to their employers and host countries. But no matter what the most important thing is to protect the people they study. They should tell the people about the research and let them be anonymous if they choose. They also choose not to publish things that could harm them. Testing a theory within a society as long as there are variables. Compares ethnographic information obtained from societies found in a particular region, societies that presumably have similar histories and occupy similar environments.
