Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Margaret Mead

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9781528375863: Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation

To the lay reader these studies are interesting on account of the strangeness of the scene, the peculiar attitudes characteristic of foreign cultures that set off in strong light our Own achievements and behaviour.

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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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