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“The time has come, I think, when we must recognize bisexuality as a normal form of human behavior... we shall not really succeed in discarding the straitjacket of our cultural beliefs about sexual choice if we fail to come to terms with the well-documented, normal human capacity to love members of both sexes.”

Quote by Margaret Mead

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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist known for her groundbreaking fieldwork and theoretical contributions. She is renowned for her studies of the Samoan, Arapesh, and Australian Aboriginal peoples, which had a profound impact on the fields of anthropology and sociology. more

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“A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of salvation, its own variety of economic philosophy, will give each new generation no peace until all have chosen or gone under, unable to bear the conditions of choice.”

Giving Philosophy Choices Gone Generations Groups Economic Conditions Bears Filled Salvation Chosen Brands Variety New Generation

Book:Coming of Age in Samoa

Source: Coming of Age in Samoa

“Both men and women are conceived as merely capable of response to a situation that their society has already defined for them as sexual, and so the Arapesh feel that it is necessary to chaperon betrothed couples who are too young... with their definition of sex as a response to an external situation rather than as spontaneous desire, both men and women are regarded as helpless in the face of seduction. Parents warn their sons even more than they warn their daughters against permitting themselves to get into situations in which someone can make love to them.”

Men Feels Faces Young Desire Sex Parent Situation Son Couple Capable Daughter Men And Women Response Definitions Defined Helpless Making Love Spontaneous Seduction

Author:Margaret Mead

“Human nature is almost unbelievably malleable, responding accurately and contrastingly to contrasting cultural conditions.”

Humans Conditions Human Nature Responding

Author:Margaret Mead

“[Partly as a consequence of male authority] prestige value always attaches to the activities of men.”

Men Values Activity Authority Consequence Males Prestige

Author:Margaret Mead

“The older child who has lost or broken some valuable thing will be found when his parents return, not run away, not willing to confess, but in a deep sleep. The thief whose case is being tried falls asleep.”

Children Running Fall Found Lost Parent Sleep Cases Willing Broken Return Valuable Running Away Thieves Valuable Things Deep Sleep

Author:Margaret Mead

“[In Bali] life is a rhythmic, patterned unreality of pleasant, significant movement, centered in one's own body to which all emotions long ago withdrew.”

Long Body Life Is Emotion Movement Significant Pleasant Long Ago Unreality Bali

Book:Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

Source: Balinese Character: A Photographic Analysis

“For Immanuel Kant, the term anthropology embraced all the human sciences, and laid the foundation of familiar knowledge we need, to build solidly grounded ideas about the moral and political demands of human life. Margaret Mead saw mid-twentieth-century anthropology as engaged in a project no less ambitious than Kant's own, and her Terry Lectures on Continuities in Cultural Evolution provide an excellent point to enter into her reflections.”

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“The ability to learn is older as it is also more widespread than is the ability to teach.”

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Book:Continuities in Cultural Evolution

Source: Continuities in Cultural Evolution

“Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.”

Knows Wells Children Littles Care Today Teach Approach Tasks Sick Cures Who Cares Fragmented

Book:Continuities in Cultural Evolution

Source: Continuities in Cultural Evolution