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Continuities in Insight and Innovation: Toward a Biography of Margaret Mead
Author(s) -
Bateson Mary Catherine
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1980.82.2.02a00020
Subject(s) - subjectivity , biography , personality , sociology , field (mathematics) , product (mathematics) , epistemology , anthropology , social science , psychology , social psychology , history , art history , philosophy , pure mathematics , geometry , mathematics
A biographical study of Margaret Mead presents a special opportunity for anthropologists to look at the relationship between the personality of a researcher, the researcher's own culture, and the scientific product, because of Mead's own awareness of disciplined subjectivity and the richness of the available scientific and personal record. Concurrently, it will be possible to consider her innovations and conservatisms in family life and organizational structure as expressions of anthropological insight. [ researcher bias, field methods, history of anthropology, innovation, life history ]