![]() ![]() They also captured public imagination when the world was growing more complex and technological. Her findings came at a time of major, almost combative, scientific debate over the effects of "nature versus nurture" on human development. ![]() ![]() Mead, then unknown at 23, set both the public and the scientific world spinning. Mead spent nine months in Samoa more than 50 years ago, and returned to describe an idyllic society filled with guilt-free teen-age love and devoid of stern child-rearing, adolescent stresses, religious inhibitions and aggressive behavior such as rape. Margaret Mead's pioneering work on Samoa, in which she described a stress-free and peaceful South Seas island realm in direct contrast to the pressured existence of the Western world, has been brought into serious scientific question by an Australian anthropologist. ![]()
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