Rereading Sex and Temperament: Margaret Mead's Sepik triptych and its ethnographic critics

From: Anthropological Quarterly | Date: October 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

In her autobiography, Blackberry Winter, Margaret Mead (1972) recalled the goal of her well-known project in Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935/1963). She wrote there that she had wanted to show "the different ways in which cultures patterned the expected behavior of males and females" (1972:102). A few pages later, however, she admitted that "the subject on which...[she] had particularly wanted to work" had been rather more definite (1972:205). She was not then just interested in assessing the contribution of culture to defining gender stereotypes, as temperaments are now ...

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