Frases de Margaret Mead

Margaret Mead foi uma antropóloga cultural norte-americana.

Nasceu na Pensilvânia, criada na localidade de Doylestown por um pai professor universitário e uma mãe activista social. Graduou-se no Barbard College em 1923 e fez doutorado na Universidade de Columbia em 1929. Em 1925, ficou conhecida pelo trabalho de campo na Polinésia. Em 1926, colaborou no Museu Americano de História Natural, em Nova Iorque, como assistente do diretor, e depois como diretora de etnologia . Durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial, foi secretária executiva do comité de hábitos alimentares do Conselho Nacional de Investigação.

Entre os anos de 1946 e 1953 Margaret Mead integrou o grupo reunido sob o nome de Macy Conferences, contribuindo para a consolidação da teoria cibernética ao lado de outros cientistas renomados: Arturo Rosenblueth, Gregory Bateson, Heinz von Foerster, John von Neumann, Julian Bigelow, Kurt Lewin, Lawrence Kubie, Lawrence K. Frank, Leonard J. Savage, Molly Harrower, Norbert Wiener, Paul Lazarsfeld, Ralph W. Gerard, Walter Pitts, Warren McCulloch e William Ross Ashby; além de Claude Shannon, Erik Erikson e Max Delbrück.

Desde 1954 trabalhou como professora adjunta da Universidade de Columbia. Seguindo o exemplo da instrutora e amante Ruth Benedict, concentrou os estudos em problemas de criança infantil, personalidade e cultura.Há desacordo com certas conclusões do primeiro livro, Adolescência, Sexo e Cultura em Samoa , baseado em investigações feitas como estudante pré-graduada; e em trabalhos publicados posteriormente, baseados no tempo que passou na Papua-Nova Guiné, como pessoa letrada pelas culturas descreveu ter posto em causa algumas das observações. Todavia, a posição como antropóloga pioneira — uma que escreveu de forma suficientemente clara e vívida para que o público em geral lesse e aprendesse com os trabalhos — permanece firme.

Margaret Mead foi casada três vezes, primeiro com Luther Cressman e depois com dois colegas antropólogos, Reo Fortune e Gregory Bateson. De Bateson teve uma filha, também antropóloga, Mary Catherine Bateson. A neta, Sevanne Margaret Kassarjian, é actriz de teatro e televisão e trabalha profissionalmente sob o nome artístico de Sevanne Martin. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Dezembro 1901 – 15. Novembro 1978
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Margaret Mead Frases famosas

Margaret Mead: Frases em inglês

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”

Fonte: Kabir, Hajara Muhammad (2010). Northern women development. [Nigeria]. ISBN 978-978-906-469-4. OCLC 890820657 note: 1940s, Male and Female (1949)

“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”

Attributed in The Quotable Woman (1991) by the Running Press, p. 53
1990s

“Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.”

Variante: Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

“Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.”

Attributed in Talent Development for English Language Learners: Identifying and Developing Potential (2013) by Michael S. Matthews, Ph.D. SBN-13:9781618211057
2000s
Variante: Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

“Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For indeed that's all who ever have.”

Fonte: The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future

“It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly.”

Attributed in American Quotations (1992) by Gorton Carruth and Eugene H. Ehrlich, p. 149
1990s

“It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary… to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.”

As quoted in Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion (1958) by Millard Dale Baughman, p. 69
1950s

“Laughter is man's most distinctive emotional expression.”

Man shares the capacity for love and hate, anger and fear, loyalty and grief, with other living creatures. But humour, which has an intellectual as well as an emotional element belongs to man.
Fonte: 1970s, Margaret Mead: Some Personal Views (1979), p. 121

“Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.”

Quote magazine (15 June 1958)
1950s
Contexto: When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed. Women want mediocre men, and men are working hard to be as mediocre as possible.

“No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back.”

"Future Families", in The American People in the Age of Kennedy (1973) edited by David M. Kennedy , p. 108
1970s
Contexto: No matter how many communes anybody invents, the family always creeps back. You can get rid of it if you live in an enclave and keep everybody else out, and bring the children up to be unfit to live anywhere else. They can go on ignoring the family for several generations. But such communities are not part of the main world.

“Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.”

Attributed in La Abogada newsletter, Vol. 3 (1967) by International Federation of Women Lawyers, p. 5
1960s

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

Attributed in Sisters by Birth Friends by Choice : All the Things I Love About You (2003) by Ellyn Sanna
2000s

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

Attributed in Banned Books Week '93: Celebrating the Freedom to Read (1993) by Robert P. Doyle, p. 62
1990s

“I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.”

Attributed in Psychology (1990) by Carole Wade and Carol Tavris, p. 372
1990s