Coming of age in Samoa : a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation

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

Margaret Mead, 1901-1978

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Subjects
Samoans > Psychology.
Girls > Samoan Islands.
Children > Samoan Islands.
Women, Samoan > Social life and customs.
Adolescence.
Samoan Islands > Social life and customs.
Published
New York : Perennial Classics 2001.
Language
English
Main Author
Margaret Mead, 1901-1978 (-)
Edition
First Perennial Classics edition
Item Description
Originally published: William Morrow and Co., 1930.
Physical Description
xxviii, 223 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography
Includes index.
ISBN
9780688050337
  • A day in Samoa
  • The education of the Samoan child
  • The Samoan household
  • The girl and her age group
  • The girl in the community
  • Formal sex relations
  • The rôle of the dance
  • The attitude towards personality
  • The experience and individuality of the average girl
  • The girl in conflict
  • Maturity and old age
  • Our educational probelms in the light of Samoan contrasts
  • Education for choice
  • Samoan civilisation as it is to-day
  • The mentally defective and the mentally diseased
  • Table I: Showing menstrual history, sex experience and residence in pastor's household
  • Table II: Family structure.

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