Growing Up In New Guinea: A Comparative Study Of Primitive Education

by Margaret Mead

2020-12-29 17:53:45

Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she v... Read more
Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing village at a pivotal time -- after warfare had vanished but before missions and global commerce had begun to change their lives. She developed fascinating insights into their family lives, exploring their attitudes toward sex, marriage, the rearing of children, and the supernatural, which led her to see intriguing parallels with modern Western society. Reissued for the centennial of her birth and featuring introductions by Howard Gardner and Mead''s daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, this book offers important anthropological insights into human societies and vividly captures a vanished way of life. Less

Book Details

File size8 X 5.31 X 0.69 in
Print pages320
PublisherHarperCollins
Publication date February 20, 2001
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780688178116
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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