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Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation by Margaret Mead

By Margaret Mead

2025-01-29 16:54:55

The groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead's first fieldwork at age 23, establishing Mead’s core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life.  Rarely do science and literature come t ... Read more

The groundbreaking classic detailing Margaret Mead's first fieldwork at age 23, establishing Mead’s core insights into childhood and culture that challenged and changed our view of life. 

Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book.  When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.

Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken when she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. 

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File size3394.727 KB
Print pages256
PublisherPublic Domain Books
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-0688050337
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Margaret Mead
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Margaret Mead (Dec 16, 1901 – Nov 15, 1978) was an American cultural anthropologist who featured frequently as an author and speaker in the mass media during the 1960s and 1970s. She earned her bach...

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