Coming of age in Samoa: a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation

Words for a new century by Mary Catherine Bateson

Introduction to the Perennial Classics edition

Foreword by Franz Boas, 1928

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 rôle 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

Appendix I: Notes to chapters

Appendix II: Methodology of this study

Appendix III: Samoan civilisation as it is to-day

Appendix IV: The mentally defective and the mentally diseased

Appendix V: Material upon which the analysis is based. A. Sample record sheet ; B. Table I: Showing menstrual history, sex experience and residence in pastor's household ; C. Table II: Family structure, and analysis of table ; D. Intelligence tests used ; E. Check list used in investigation of each girl's experience.