Coming of Age in Samoa
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a 1928 book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth – primarily
Original title page (1928)
Franz Boas (ca 1915, age 57)
Margaret Mead (ca 1930 to 1950, age 30s or 40s)
Samoan girls (c. 1902)
The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia: An Ethnographic Account of Courtship, Marriage, and Family Life Among the Natives of the Trobriand Islands, British New Guinea is a 1929 book by
Coming of Age in Samoa
…Heretic, a play by Australian playwright David Williamson that explores Freeman's reactions to Mead. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia Mead, Margaret (1928). Coming of Age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilisation – via Internet Archive…
Title page of the original edition