ISS 210 Section 003 Lecture 7 Outline of Last Lecture I Culture II Myth of Individual class discussion topics Outline of Current Lecture I Margret Mead Video Notes Current Lecture Margret Mead Video Lived from 1901 1978 Attempted to save modern world from itself Daughter of Edward and Emily Mead Franz Boas was sending students out to observe cultures that were vanishing Believed the only way to understand diversity was to observe documents and different cultures of other times Margret worked with Franz she went to Sonoma because it had a boat every 3 weeks She traveled 6 weeks to get there at age 23 She brought a type writer camera and pencils and paper She discovered different adolescence of the girls they were encourage to experiment with sex and did not have many expectations When she returned she was hired by a museum in NYC 2nd study Monice island Her problem was to figure out how Monice children thought She thought they were less developed than Adults Her hypothesis was that Monice children thought more animisticly than adults or western children o She found that they thought more like western adults than their parents o Children learned as they grew up to become more of certain cultures 1931 she traveled to the mainland of New Guiney 1936 we went to Bali she started taking videos to examine movements and children more thoroughly o Breakthrough in the use of film and science 1939 became pregnant she questioned American parenting practices after living in different societies 1945 she got a divorce they continued to collaborate in their work though Bomb meant that for the first time humans had to power to destroy everything on this earth These notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor s lecture GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes not as a substitute 1959 She started using a team approach to gather info in Monnice she used photography and filming for records Things that seemed normal to their society and different from ours were most interesting Was their motor behavior the same as in America in similar tests Children learned adult life much later They looked at being adults as burdens Need to adjust to change Children know more about living in the present day world than adults because adults are used to growing up and living in a different time She made a trade with people she would share her experiences if they shared theirs Her death was mourned in ways of that of a great chief in the places she had studied They looked as someone who had served their ancestors