Margaret Mead's Classic Study of Three Primitive Tribes in New

question 52

Multiple Choice

Margaret Mead's classic study of three primitive tribes in New Guinea found that

• A) human behavior was totally unpredictable and illogical.
• B) men in all three tribes were the more aggressive and combative.
• C) both men and women in the Arapesh and the Mundugumor tribe were passive, gentle, and unaggressive.
• D) the typical gender roles found in Western cultures were reversed among the Tchambuli.

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