Coming of age in Samoa : a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation
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Published
New York : Perennial Classics, 2001.
Format
Book
Edition
1st Perennial Classics ed.
Physical Desc
xxviii, 223 pages ; 21 cm
Status
Main Library - Adult
306.099 Mea
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306.099 Mea
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Published
New York : Perennial Classics, 2001.
Edition
1st Perennial Classics ed.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Originally published: William Morrow and Co., 1930.
General Note
Includes index.
Bibliography
Includes index.
Description
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 sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Annotation. Reprint of Mead's classic, which is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed.
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