Margaret Mead
Author
Publisher
Perennial Classics
Pub. Date
2001
Description
"Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization" by Margaret Mead is a pioneering work in cultural anthropology that examines the adolescence and cultural practices of Samoan youth. Originally published in 1928, Mead's study challenges Western assumptions about the universality of adolescent experiences and sheds light on the influence of cultural factors on human behavior.
In this groundbreaking work, Mead...
Author
Series
World perspectives volume 52
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1977
Description
Margaret Mead was famous for keeping in touch with a wide circle of friends as we see in this collection of wonderfully revealing correspondence from the field. Written over a period of half a century, these letters to friends, family, and colleagues detail her first fieldwork in Samoa and go on to record her now famous anthropological endeavors in mainland New Guinea, the Admiralty Islands, and Bali. Enhanced by photographs, these intelligent, vivid,...
Author
Series
Lecture series) volume no. 3
Publisher
distributed by the New York Graphic Society
Pub. Date
1963
14) Male and female
Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Mead's anthropological examination of seven Pacific island tribes analyzes the dynamics of primitive cultures to explore the evolving meaning of "male" and "female" in modern American society.--From publisher description.
