Ocupation: Cultural Anthropologist
Life: December 16, 1901 - November 15, 1978
Birthday: December 16
Death: November 15
Samoa culture demonstrates how much the tragic or the easy solution of the Oedipus situation depends upon the inter-relationship between parents and children, and is not created out of whole cloth by the young child's biological impulses.
source: Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co
topic: Children, Science, Oedipus, Samoa