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ROBERT LEVY

ROBERT LEVY. Tahitian Study. BIOGRAPHY. Born in Asolo , Veneto, Italy 1924 – August 2003 Psychiatrist and anthropologist Worked in the University of North Carolina for two years. Known field work in Tahiti in the South Pacific Influenced by Douglas Oliver

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ROBERT LEVY

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  1. ROBERT LEVY Tahitian Study

  2. BIOGRAPHY • Born in Asolo, Veneto, Italy • 1924 – August 2003 • Psychiatrist and anthropologist • Worked in the University of North Carolina for two years • Known field work in Tahiti in the South Pacific • Influenced by Douglas Oliver • Douglas also studied the Tahitian culture

  3. PUBLISHED BY ROBERT LEVY Papers: • Folk Psychotherapy (1967) • Child Management Structure (1968) • Anger and Its Expressions (1968) • The Integration Between Personality and Sociocultural Systems (1971)

  4. PUBLISHED BY ROBERT LEVY Book: • Tahitians: Mind and Experience in the Society Islands (1973)

  5. THEORY • Aggression and violence are behaviors that are created by individual cultures • Canadian culture teaches people to act aggressively and violently

  6. TAHITIAN STUDY • Tahitian culture literally free from violence • Found that there were three main factors that contributed to this non-violence: • Tahitians cooperated and shared with one another • Children raised with a better lifestyle • Parents allow children to learn of their mistakes on their own

  7. CANADA vs. TAHITI CANADA TAHITI

  8. CANADA

  9. CANADA

  10. IN CONCLUSION Cause of Violence • How children are brought up • Type of family or home living in • How they are disciplined/punished • Community/Society (people around them)

  11. REFERENCES • http://www40.statcan.gc.ca/l01/cst01/FAMIL02-eng.htm • http://www.statcan.gc.ca/subject-sujet/subtheme-soustheme.action?pid=40000&id=40001&lang=eng&more=0 • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_I._Levy_(anthropologist) • http://www.asao.org/pacific/honoraryf/levy.htm • http://www.polynesia.com/tahiti/population.html

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