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Great video! I found your channel looking for information about Margaret Mead. Thank you very much! I am a Spanish plastic artist and art teacher residing between Spain and Germany I follow you from now on

Great video about an inspiring woman!

Thank you very much for all your videos. I am an Italian high school teacher. I'm drawing a lot of inspiration from you for my anthropology classes in English.

@AliviaBrown

2 жыл бұрын

What this is so amazing!! Anthropology is a topic more people should be learning about and I’m so glad to hear my videos have been helpful. This is great!!

Omg ! Thank you a lot for that, as a 1st year undergraduate student this helps a lot 🙏🏼

@AliviaBrown

2 жыл бұрын

Of course! I’ve had so many requests and Mead felt like the perfect place to start. Good luck to you, so glad I could help!

That was a great video. Greatings from Poland. I studied Mead in my anthropology class. I will think about what other famous thinker a video would be nice to see:))

Such an amazing video. Girl you are on fire 🔥. And yess i can make a request for making video on Malinoski and his research. We all love you take care

@AliviaBrown

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you!! I would love to do a video on him!! You take care as well!

Hello, I love your videos! Would love one on Franz Boas. Super interesting guy who change the way that a whole generation thought!

@AliviaBrown

Жыл бұрын

Hi, that is so sweet thank you! And yes!! He has been on my "to do list" for a little while now haha. I feel like I can't only have done Margaret Mead and Ruth Benedict and not do Franz Boas. Thank you for the suggestion!

Thank you for your very good video!

@AliviaBrown

Жыл бұрын

Of course! I was happy to make it!

Thank you Alivia .. this was really beneficial.. i am a student of visual sociology... Love from India ❤️❤️😍

@AliviaBrown

Жыл бұрын

Of course!! So happy to hear I was able to help

Wow I'm super excited to read Coming of age in Samoa :D sounds really interesting - it is so fascinating to me how attitudes differ from culture to culture especially around topics that can be so taboo in some cultures!

@AliviaBrown

Жыл бұрын

Right?! It’s so interesting!!

@kathleenwerner-leap1681

9 ай бұрын

I lived in Samoa. Actually, I disagree based on the fact that she didn’t know the language or culture enough to correctly understand what she observed. Samoans that I met are still very upset by her book b/c of all the inaccuracies. There was no fact checking back then. Her conclusions were often wrong and ultimately harmful to Samoans. She actually (in my opinion) was guilty of her own cultural bias. Sadly, I would never have known this if I hadn’t lived there.

@goyonman9655

2 ай бұрын

​@@AliviaBrown Coming of age in Samoa us a fraudulent book It's basically Rousseauan progressive wishful thinking

There is a variety of information that actually dismissed her research too. Especially with her observation of only 12 girls, having only a 500 word vocabulary of the language which she had started she learned in six weeks, and other points. Margaret also having extreme left ideology herself too. The timelines also with her contacts through the years with many Russian relationships was interesting though there is more here I will need to research further. Interesting take though.

Amazing video on an amazing person!

@AliviaBrown

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! She’s the best!

@CZinDC

2 жыл бұрын

@@AliviaBrown absolutely! You should do Clifford Geertz next. One of the most important contributors to anthropological theory!

Now I am reading "Lessons on living" about Meads study.

I met Margaret Mead. I was inspired to study cultural anthropology. Unfortunately none of my courses used her work. I was bad with money so my studies were shortened. But I have never stopped learning. College Antrho all about becoming a teacher. I could never do that. I want to learn. Not teach. No one would listen to me either. Maybe not. At the time I was against teaching. I had a lot of good pictures of her with her famous forked stick. But I lost them.

Years later, one of the girls she interviewed, said they lied to Mead. Local Samoans also took offence to the insinuation their culture allowed free love. She didn't like the nuclear family or Christianity. In fact her ideas are associated with Lucis Trust and the ideas of Alice Bailey. You've got to look under the veil.

@AliviaBrown

Жыл бұрын

This is really interesting, thank you for sharing. Mead's work definitely does not go without criticism and error. This video was more of Mead at a glance but I would like to do a video eventually that explores more of the issues with anthropology and anthropology's history

@BillCooper1776

Жыл бұрын

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@kathleenwerner-leap1681

9 ай бұрын

Exactly. I iced in AS for 2 years and she got a lot of her information and conclusions wrong.

@lepercolony8214

5 ай бұрын

​​​@@AliviaBrownI'm sure you've already learned this by now but for anyone else reading this: No, they didn't. This lie about Mead's research - more or less the work of one tireless crybaby, Derek Freeman - has itself been widely debunked. Though "debunked" might not be the right word, since most actual anthropologists didn't believe Freeman's nonsense in the first place. In the interviews Freeman paid someone else to conduct with one of the women he believed had inadvertently hoaxed Mead - interviews that were not publicly available until after Freeman's death - the woman was clearly losing her memory, to the point that even Freeman himself annotated his copies of the interviews with questions regarding the more blatant inaccuracies attested to by the supposed hoaxer. Nonetheless, Freeman ran with what portions he could edit into coherency to get his fifteen minutes of fame. It's a testament to Mead's influence and Freeman's irrelevance that, even in the lies told about her work, people never remember that scumbags name.

Love from Bharat 🇮🇳

Hello Alivia also please talk about the National character studies by Ruth benedict and Margret Mead

@AliviaBrown

2 жыл бұрын

I would love to talk about this!! Thank you for the suggestion!

Currently reading coming of age in samoa and wow there are lots and lots of triggers. I respect her for paving the road. If course being one of the first comes with mistakes and errors.

Thanks, but, this was a post-it note presentation. 'Good enough' though in the DW meaning.

Nice info but really the hand jive is distracting to the point of defeating your purpose of holding my attention. So you lose me.

Derek Feeeman spent two years in Somoa and wrote a refutation on her thesis. Oh the humanity… what an outcry from the anthropology community! It went against the narrative. And it was not just Derek Freeman who disagreed with her thesis…there were others.

I was actually looking for a video on the subject of what Margaret Mead got wrong. I do understand now how Ms. meads work on gender has contributed to the idea that gender is a socially contrived concept and that 54 genders is sustainable in modern western society.

@AliviaBrown

Жыл бұрын

This would be a great video idea. There are many things Mead described that today would be considered incorrect or outdated. Thank you!