Coming of Age in Samoa A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation

Name: Coming of Age in Samoa A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
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ISBN: 9780688050337

ISBN-10: 0688050336

ISBN-13: 9780688050337

Edition: 2001

Authors: Margaret Mead

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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 where 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…

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List price: $17.99
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 2/20/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.35" wide x 7.99" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.550



Acknowledgements


Words for a New Century



Introduction to the Perennial Classics Edition


Foreword



Preface to the 1973 Edition



Introduction



A Day in Samoa



The Education of the Samoan Child



The Samoan Household



The Girl and Her Age Group



The Girl in the Community



Formal Sex Relations



The Role of the Dance



The Attitude Towards Personality



The Experience and Individuality of the Average Girl



The Girl in Conflict



Maturity and Old Age



Our Educational Problems in the Light of Samoan Contrasts



Education for Choice



Notes to Chapters



Methodology of This Study



Samoan Civilisation as It Is To-day



The Mentally Defective and the Mentally Diseased



Materials upon Which the Analysis Is Based



Sample Record Sheet



Table I. Showing Menstrual History, Sex Experience and Residence in Pastor's Household



Table II. Family Structure, and Analysis of Table



Intelligence Tests Used



Check List Used in Investigation of Each Girl's Experience


Index and Glossary