America

anthropology at a distance

city

co-figurative society

culture

culture cracking

father

felicitous relaxation

generation gap

human nature

ideal community

identity

jealousy

leisure

morality

nuclear family

post-figurative society

post-menopausal zest

pre-figurative society

pscychocultural approach

sister

social change

Talpu

television

trial marriages

women in combat

women's liberation

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

innovator in the field of

childrearing

cultural and personality school

feminist anthropology

gender and sexuality studies

curator

cause of death

natural causes

scientific organization

American Academy of Arts and Sciences

religion

Anglicanism

American Association for the Advancement of Science

National Academy of Sciences

American Academy of Arts and Letters

American Philosophical Society

cultural anthropology

volkerpsychologie

psychological anthropology

anthropology

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is a country that has no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed.

One characteristic of Americans is that they have no tolerance at all of anybody putting up with anything. We believe that whatever is going wrong ought to be fixed. - Margaret Mead

is a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.

A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. Margaret Mead

is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again. Margaret Mead

is essential to the soul of the nation as a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know. It demands institutions such as universities, art schools, libraries, museums such that there is continual fresh encounters with new talent, keen minds or gifted specialist.

The city as a center where, any day in any year, there may be a fresh encounter with a new talent, a keen mind or a gifted specialist-this is essential to the life of a country. To play this role in our lives a city must have a soul-a university, a great art or music school, a cathedral or a great mosque or temple, a great laboratory or scientific center, as well as the libraries and museums and galleries that bring past and present together. A city must be a place where groups of women and men are seeking and developing the highest things they know.Margaret Mead

is a society wherein neither the old are made irrelevant nor are the young are held back from social and technological change. Rather everyone is learning from one another.

Once formed, tastes and attitudes are difficult to change, although social pressure, rewards, experience, and philosophical convictions sometimes cause this. Another factor is what Margaret Mead referred to as the pre-figurative vs. post-figurative society. In a pre-figurative (traditional) society, the skills, values, and knowledge of older members continue to have importance and the persons themselves to be useful in the community. In a post-figurative (modern) society, older people's experience and abilities are rendered irrelevant by rapid technological and social change. They themselves are disrespected unless they are wealthy. Levi-Strauss calls this contrast 'cold' versus 'hot' systems of thought. The ideal would be something like a co-figurative society, in which everybody was learning together with no sacrifice of persons whose capabilities fell out of date. (net)

is the total shared, learned behavior of a society or subgroup.

total shared, learned behavior of a society or subgroup' Culture means the whole complex of traditional behavior which has been developed by the human race and is successively learned by each generation. A culture is less precise. It can mean the forms of traditional behavior which are characteristics of a given society, or of a group of societies, or of a certain race, or of a certain area, or of a certain period of time. (p.17)

is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive.

Human nature is potentially aggressive and destructive and potentially orderly and constructive. Margaret Mead

is not a barometer of the depth of love but of the degree of the lover's insecurity.

Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins. It is at once one of the ugliest and one of the most pardonable.

is inextricably interdependent with the cultivation of human capacities.

Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent. (Margaret Mead)

is the expendable sex, because while women were necessary for the tribe's next generation, fighting fell to men.

Because the women were so desperately needed to produce the tribe's next generation, the responsibility for fighting fell to what anthropologist Margaret Mead has called 'the expendable sex' -the men. (net)

is the impossible experiment of asking an immediate family to live all by itself in a box with no relatives and no support.

Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put it in an impossible situation. - Margaret Mead

is modern society, in which older people's experience and abilities are rendered irrelevant by rapid technological and social change.They themselves are disrespected unless they are wealthy.

is a traditional society in which the skills, values, and knowledge of older members continue to have importance and the persons themselves to be useful in the community.

is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but in adulthood, the strongest bond.

Sister is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

is possible. One should never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. (Margaret Mead)

is a device whereby, for the first time, the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

Thanks to television, for the first time the young are seeing history made before it is censored by their elders.

is an invention like any other inventions such as writing, marriage, or cooking our food instead of eating it raw.

warfare, by which I mean organized conflict between two groups warfare of this sort is an invention like any other of the inventions in the terms of which we order our lives, such as writing, marriage, cooking our food instead of eating it raw, trial by jury, or burial of the dead, and so on' (Margaret Mead, 713)

 ought not allowed, because females are too fierce.

I do not believe in using women in combat, because females are too fierce.

is such that every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.

Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man. (Margaret Mead)

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