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"Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead
Book Review # 21255
"Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead
A critical analysis of the anthropologist's findings on child and adolescent development in Western Samoa in the 1920s.
3,375 words (approx. 13.5 pages) |
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1994
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"Margaret Mead's Coming of age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a study of child and adolescent development in Western Samoa during the 1920s. Mead studied the customs and habits of the villagers on Ta'u, one of three small islands in the Manu'a group, about a hundred miles east of Pago Pago.The study of ethnography, or the scientific description of customs and habits among mankind, was the purpose for Mead's journey. Descriptive by definition, ethnography is limited by both the scientist-observer's objectivity and perspective within his or her frame of reference. Mead described the Samoans' birth through teen years from the perspective of an outsider looking in, with all the limitations imposed by such a design. Her idyllic portrayals of the islanders' stress-free lives were..."
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"Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 13, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Book-Review-Coming-of-Age-in-Samoa-by-Margaret-Mead/21255
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""Coming of Age in Samoa" by Margaret Mead" 15 January 2012. Web. 13 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Book-Review-Coming-of-Age-in-Samoa-by-Margaret-Mead/21255>
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