Coming of Age is a film that allows the viewer to delve into the historical life of Margaret Mead. Mead was one of the f

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Coming of Age is a film that allows the viewer to delve into the
historical life of Margaret Mead. Mead was one of the first female
anthropologists of the 1920's, and was inspired by the work of
Professor Fraz Boas. At just 23 years old, she embarked on her
first anthropological study based in Polynesia, where she studied
the adolescence of young girls on the island of Ta’u. Although she
had stayed with an American family for the duration of her 6 month
visit, she slowly began with her first steps into participant
observation and ethnographic fieldwork, by wearing their clothes,
eating their food, and engaging with the people of the village. She
later wrote a book titled Coming of Age in Samoa, in which she
spoke of all her findings. However critics believed her accounts
may not have been as accurate or in depth as they could have been
due the distance she maintained with the Samoan people. In 1928,
her second and most noteworthy journey in ethnographic fieldwork
was set in New Guinea, where she fully immersed herself with the
culture of the Pere village. She lived among the people, shared in
daily work, and ate their food. She became so involved with the
community she was studying, that she would go as far as helping
mothers nurse and care for their children. In addition to paving
the way for immersive ethnographic fieldwork in anthropology, Mead
also helped to introduce the use of film and photography into the
anthropologist toolkit. She took hundreds of pictures of the people
and community she was in, and annotated each image with an in depth
description of what was being shown. She also kept a note pad with
her at all times for her field notes.
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