While raising her family, her mother, Emily Fogg Mead, used to study Italian immigrant families. ... She had decided that her doctoral studies would be anthropology. ... Cressman and her returned to New York and she then became a keeper of ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History, a position she would hold for the rest of her life. ... A devoted and moving teacher, she trained a generation of anthropologists, guiding the early careers of numerous men and women. ... A section of the park outside the Natural History Museum was dedicated as "Margaret Mead Green."...

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Indeed multiple studies have shown that to drive a man truly insane you need only put him in a room with no access to know the passing of time. That room would have no clocks, no schedule, and no daylight to guide his way. ... Various societies throughout the history of man have treated time differently, and even today there is a disparity between cultures regarding the importance of time. ...

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An ethnocentric curriculum is when the school emphasizes the values of only their own culture therefore emphasis is put on white-western music, literature, language, history, religion, etc An ethnocentric curriculum does not value black, Asian or any other cultures except their own and therefore a pupil of a different ethnicity will not have the same knowledge and understanding of white-British culture as much as they may have of their own culture, however this is not recognized, hence the pupil is doomed to fail as they may not know or understand the ˜basic' English/British cultu...

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In the late 1940's she began her secondary education, which included study several universities. Much of Joy's material centers on her heritage and life history, individual identity and cultural diversity. ... Much like the weddings of our western culture, much of the ceremony is scripted and guided by custom. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Fascinating findings in the sphere of comparative mythology have added many details to the great puzzle of the history of civilizations. ... The younger generation is not guided by the instructions of elders. ... To answer to my question "Why it is important to study myths", I can quote Joseph Campbell: "Read myths. ...

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