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Margaret Mead was best known for her work in anthropology. She had a career at the New School for over twenty years. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Margaret Mead, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" Those who argue for the first view endow man with such pugnacious instincts that some outlet in aggressive behavior is necessary if man is to reach full human stature. It was this point of view which lay back of William James's famous essay, "The Moral Equivalent of War," in which he tried to retain the warlike virtues and channel them in new directions. "
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" It would be almost impossible for an individual by himself to survive, especially at the most primitive levels, where hunting and gardening, as well as collecting and gathering are made hazardous by the harshness of the geographical environment and the rudimentary nature of techniques. "
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Stanley Diamond was an anthropologist and poet who founded The New School’s graduate anthropology program in 1970. The program soon developed into a full department, of which he served as its chairman until 1983 when he was made Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Humanities and University Poet. [1] Born in 1922 to a progressive and […]
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Elsie Clews Parsons, née Elsie Worthington Clews (November 27, 1875, N.Y., N.Y. – December 19, 1941, N.Y., N.Y.), was an American sociologist and anthropologist who produced landmark studies of the Pueblo and other Native American tribes in the Southwest, Mexico, and South America. [1] Born to wealth, her education reflected her family’s position: private schools, […]
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Claude Lévi-Strauss was a visiting professor at the New School for Social Research in New York City (1941–45), where he was influenced by the work of linguist Roman Jakobson. You can read more about him here. If you’d like to write a more in-depth profile of Claude Lévi-Strauss, email us at [email protected]. We welcome contributions.
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" In any study of the relations between personality and social classification the queries arise why the social categories are alike so compulsive to the conservative-minded and so precious, why they are given such unfailing loyalty, why such unquestioning devotion? "
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" It has long been the fashion to invoke languages which lack the terms for expressing such a concept as ‘tree’ or ‘animal’, even though they contain all the words necessary for a detailed inventory of species and varieties. "
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" There remains one question to be discussed; namely, whether some tribes represent a lower cultural stage when looked at from an evolutionary point of view. "