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Margaret Mead Research Paper

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According to library of Congress,Margaret Mead was born in Philadelphia on December 16, 1901, and grew up in a household that included three generations. She was the first of five children born to Edward Sherwood Mead and Emily Fogg Mead, social scientists who had met while attending the University of Chicago. Margaret's early home life, with emphases on education and social issues, exerted a pronounced influence on her later life and career. She was a child of the Progressive Era, when reformers felt that social problems could be solved by the application of the social sciences. Growing up with a mother who was a well-educated social reformer and a father who was an economist, Margaret had a lifelong Progressivist orientation. In later years, …show more content…

The people from Australia ,Indonesia, Philippines, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Walking around I felt a connection with some of the pictures and art work . It had reminded me of the time I lived in Africa for nine months. The handmade artifacts such as mask , war shields and sitting stool made from trees and local thing. What Caught my tension was the young boy with the marks all over his his back . The details under the picture states the following Moria people in New Zealand received tattoos or moko according to status. Cheifs and warriors bore tattoo on there face and many parts of there body, from shoulder to upper legs, but a tattoo on the back was a mark of slavery. Reading that piece about the back tattoos and slavery. Shows how slavery ,control and power happened throughout the world . Right here in America with the African American people. The museum post stayed the Moria of New Zealand cultural had changed with time . Tattooing (moko) was a form of ownership and now it the sense of belonging. The Moria of the 20th century are receiving often combining traditional ,contemporary and modern designs to mark there status and ancestry. It can also be considered as a symbol of the Moria people. Tattoos in 2015 is completely

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