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The learning experiences of children in Manus society are studied and used as the framework for a discussion of modern educational problems
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About the Author
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) began her remarkable career when she visited Samoa at the age of twenty-three, which led to her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa. She went on to become one of the most influential women of our time, publishing some forty works and serving as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History as well as president of major scientific associations. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom following her death in 1978.
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Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) launched Mead's career as an anthropologist, which was reaffirmed with the 1930 publication of New Guinea. In both volumes she theorizes that culture is a leading influence on psychosexual development. She also surmises that the so-called civilized world could learn a lot from so-called primitives. Essential volumes for academics.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. spine creasing, edge wear; Now with a new introduction by Howard Gardner, Ph.D., Mead's second book following her landmark Coming of Age in Samoa , Growing Up in New Guinea established Mead as the first anthropologist to look at human development in a cross-cultural perspective. Margaret Mead was 23 when she traveled alone to Samoa on her first expedition to the South Seas. Her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, chronicled that visit and launched her distinguished career. Following her landmark field work focusing on girls in American Samoa, noted anthropologist Margaret Mead found that she needed to study preadolescents in order to understand adolescents. In 1928 she went to Manus Island in New Guinea, where she studied the play and imaginations of younger children and how they were shaped by adult society. Mead and her second husband, Reo Fortune, lived in 24-hour contact with the inhabitants of this fishing village. Seller Inventory # 046495
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book has a slight amount of shelf wear. Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education, by Margaret Mead. Mead's classic ethnography, based on her 1928-29 fieldwork among the Manus people of Pere village in the Admiralty Islands, then part of the Australian-mandated Territory of New Guinea and now Papua New Guinea. Mead examines how Manus children were raised, what they were and were not taught, and how they grew into adults, and turns her findings back on American education and child-rearing. The companion to Coming of Age in Samoa and a founding work of the anthropology of childhood, valuable both as anthropology and as a record of Manus society before World War II. First Morrow Paperback Edition, 1975, second printing (number line to 2). Seller Inventory # OCT26058