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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Margaret Mead |
| OCLC Number: | 4978086 |
| Notes: | On cover: With a new preface by the author. Reprint of the pbk. ed. published in 1973 by Morrow, New York. "Margaret Mead died in New York City on November 15, 1978"--P. xiii. Study conducted in mid-1920s of 68 girls aged 8 to 20 in 3 villages on the island of Tau in the Manu'a Archipelago, American Samoa. |
| Description: | xiii, 170 p. ; 18 cm. |
| 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 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. |
| Responsibility: | Margaret Mead ; foreword by Franz Boas. |
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