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Coming of age in Samoa : a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilization. / Foreword by Franz Boas.
LIBRA Special DU813 .M4 1973b
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Samoans--Psychology.
- Samoans.
- Girls--Samoan Islands.
- Girls.
- Children--Samoan Islands.
- Children.
- Women--Samoan Islands.
- Women.
- Adolescence.
- Manners and customs.
- Samoan Islands--Social life and customs.
- Samoan Islands.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 170 pages
- Edition:
- Special Members edition.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : American Museum of Natural History, 1973.
- Contents:
- 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 ro^le 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.
- OCLC:
- 698338403
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