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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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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.
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In the autumn of 1928, shortly before she was to become well-known, anthropologist Margaret Mead set forth on her second trip to the South Pacific, this time to the Manus village of Peri, in the Admiralty Islands to the north of New Guinea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Margaret Mead, Perennial Classics Edition, New York, United States, The Adolescent Boy, Admiralty Islands, Manus Attitudes Towards Sex, Sunday School, Columbia University, Coming of Age New!
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In the autumn of 1928, shortly before she was to become well-known, anthropologist Margaret Mead set forth on her second trip to the South Pacific, this time to the Manus village of Peri, in the Admiralty Islands to the north of New Guinea. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New Guinea, Margaret Mead, Perennial Classics Edition, New York, United States, The Adolescent Boy, Admiralty Islands, Manus Attitudes Towards Sex, Sunday School, Columbia University, Coming of Age New!
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- Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation (Perennial Classics) by Margaret Mead on 5 pages
- New Guinea (The World's Wild Places) by Roy D. MacKay on page 10, and Back Matter
- Male and Female by Margaret Mead in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years by Margaret Mead in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
- Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years by Margaret Mead in Front Matter (1), and Front Matter (2)
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- Margaret Mead: A Life by Jane Howard on 6 pages
- Male and Female by Margaret Mead in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Visualizing Theory: Selected Essays from V.A.R., 1990-1994 by Lucien Taylor on page 108, and page 116
- Encyclopedia of Social and Cultural Anthropology by Dr. Spencer on page 143, and page 145
- Margaret Mead: Coming of Age in America (Oxford Portraits in Science) by Joan Mark on page 44, and Back Matter
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