Margaret Mead

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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1. When was Margaret Mead born?December 16, 1901
2. When did Margaret Mead die?November 15, 1978 (age 76)
3. Where was Margaret Mead born?Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
4. Who was Margaret Mead?She was a famous anthropologist who traveled the world to learn how different people live.
5. What did she do in Samoa?She lived with Samoan people, learned their language, and wrote about how their way of growing up was different from the West.

Ethnography: The scientific description of the customs of individual peoples and cultures, often based on immersive fieldwork.
Cultural Relativism: The principle that an individual human's beliefs and activities should be understood by others in terms of that individual's own culture.
Ethnocentrism: The tendency to view one's own culture as superior and to judge other cultures by its standards.