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

By: Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978.
Publisher: New York : Perennial Classics, 2001Edition: 1st Perennial Classics edition.Description: xxviii, 223 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0688050336; 9780688050337; 9780688050337.Subject(s): Samoans -- Psychology | Girls -- Samoan Islands | Children -- Samoan Islands | Women, Samoan -- Social life and customs | Adolescence | Girls - Samoan Islands | Women, Samoan - Social Life And Customs | Samoans - Psychology | Children - Samoan Islands | Samoan Islands -- Social life and customsDDC classification: 306.09961 | MEA
Contents:
Words for a new century / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Introduction to the Perennial Classics edition / Mary Pipher -- Foreword / Franz Boas, 1928 Preface to the 1973 edition -- Introduction -- 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 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.
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Originally published: William Morrow and Co., 1930.

Includes index.

Words for a new century / Mary Catherine Bateson -- Introduction to the Perennial Classics edition / Mary Pipher -- Foreword / Franz Boas, 1928 Preface to the 1973 edition -- Introduction -- 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 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.

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