Tales From The Jungle Margaret Mead Part 1 of 6

[suddenlyitsobvious]

Mead, a disturbed, lesbian puppet who basically became the face of anthropology with a completely fabulized narrative. What does this tell us about anthropology? Pfft...

[DarthBleh]

I'm sorry, what does she say at minute 2:00? I understood "a product of nature or nupture"...

[codrinu]

@DarthBleh

She says nurture. Nature VS nurture represents the core debate in anthropology at the beginning of the 20th century. More specifically the question anthropologists were trying to answer at the time was: Are humans the sole product of their hereditary / biological background or are they social and historical beings - that is the cumulative product of the society in they live. 

[codrinu]

@DarthBleh

Nature alludes to the early racist beliefs that whites represent the climax of human evolution and non-whites are biologically inferior and there is nothing they can do about it. Nurture refers to the idea that there are no genetic predispositions that can conclusively determine who a person is and how he/she acts, but it is the cultural setting that determines the life of an individual

[codrinu]

@DarthBleh

More specifically it is the family ties, life conditions, supportive environment, education, social affairs and the particular cultural webs of knowledge – what Clifford Geertz calls “think descriptions” that determine who we are and how we behave.