HIST 365, Winter 2004, Week 4
Outline and Key Terms
Cultural Childhood: Their Children and Our Children
1. Anthropology and the Culture Concept
2. Margaret Mead and Samoa
3. What exactly can cross-cultural inquiries explain? How far down does
culture go?
4. Childhood and Globalization: Toward a New Universalism?
the culture and personality school
Mead studied with Franz Boas at Columbia University
Samoa annexed by the U.S. in 1899, and was under naval jurisdiction until
1951
Derek Freeman, Margaret Mead and Samoa: The Making and Unmaking of
an Anthropological Myth, 1983
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