Name: Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation by Margaret Mead
Author: Margaret Mead
ISBN: 978-0688050337

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

By Margaret Mead 29 Jan, 2025

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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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