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028			_aAtlantic Publishers & Distributors _b;7/22,Ansari Road ,Darya Ganj,New Delhi-110002 _c;1077439 _d;07/06/2018
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100			_aMargaret Mead
245			_aComing of age in Samoa _b : a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation _c/Margaret Mead
260			_aNew York _b: Perennial Classics _c, 2001.
300			_axxviii, 223 pages _c; 21 cm
505			_aA 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 problems in the light of Samoan contrasts -- Education for choice -- Appendix I: Notes to chapters -- Appendix II: Methodology of this study -- Appendix III: Samoan civilisation as it is to-day -- Appendix IV: The mentally defective and the mentally diseased -- Appendix V: Material upon which the analysis is based. A. Sample record sheet ; B. Table I: Showing menstrual history, sex experience and residence in pastor's household ; C. Table II: Family structure, and analysis of table ; D. Intelligence tests used ; E. Check list used in investigation of each girl's experience.
520			_aRarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike. Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Annotation. Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike. Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson. Annotation. Reprint of Mead's classic, which is cited in Books for College Libraries, 3d ed.
650			_aSocial Sciences
655			_aCulture & institutions
700			_aMargaret Mead
942			_cBOOK
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