Margaret mead coming of age in samoa

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    Coming of age in Samoa : A psychological study of primitive youth for western…

    AuthorMead, Margaret, 1901-1978Author of introduction, etc.Boas, Franz, 1858-1942LoC No.28020670 Title Coming of age in Samoa : A psychological study of primitive ungdom for western civilisation Original Publication New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928. Note https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_SamoaNote Reading ease score: 55.2 (10th to 12th grade). Somewhat difficult to read. Credits Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Summary "Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead fryst vatten a scientific publication written in the early 20th century. This pioneering ethnographic study investigates the lives and psychological experiences of adolescent girls in Samoan society, contrasting their development with that of thei
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    Excerpt from Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (New York: Morrow Quill, 1961), 195–96.

    For many chapters we have followed the lives of Samoan girls, watched them change from babies to baby-tenders, learn to make the oven and weave fine mats, forsake the life of the gang to become more active members of the household, defer marriage through as many years of casual love-making as possible, finally marry and settle down to rearing children who will repeat the same cycle. As far as our material permitted, an experiment has been conducted to discover what the process of development was like in a society very different from our own. Because the length of human life and the complexity of our society did not permit us to make our experiment here, to choose a group of baby girls and bring them to maturity under conditions created for the experiment, it was necessary to go instead to another country where history had se

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    Coming of Age in Samoa

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    With Hibiscus in her hair

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    To the Girls of Taū

    this book is dedicated

    ʻOu te avatu
    lenei tusitala
    iā te ʻoutou
    O Teineīti ma le Aualuma
    o Taū

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    I am indebted to the generosity of the Board of Fellowships in the Biological Sciences of the National Research Council whose award of a fellowship made this investigation possible. I have to thank my father for the gift of my travelling expenses to and from the Samoan Islands. To Prof. Franz Boas I owe the inspiration and the direction of my problem, the training which prepared me to undertake such an investigation, and the criticism of my results.

    For a co-operation which greatly facilitated the progress of my work in the Pacific, I am indebted to Dr. Herbert E. Gregory, Director of the B. P. Bishop Museum and to Dr. E. C. S. Handy and Miss Stella Jones of the Bishop Museum.

    To the endorsement of my work by Admiral Stitt and t