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It frames comparative anthropology as a method for reconstructing cultural histories, while arguing that systematic descriptions often omit individual mental attitudes, friendships, conflicts, and personal experiences. The book’s structure moves from daily life and education to age groups, community relations, sex relations, dance, personality and individuality, conflict, and transitions from maturity to old age.","COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA\nA Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation\nMARGARET MEAD\nForeword by Franz Boas\nAMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY SPECIAL MEMBERS EDITION\nForeword\nMODERN descriptions of primitive people give us a picture of their culture classified according to the varied aspects of human life. We learn about inventions, household economy, family and political organisation, and religious beliefs and practices. Through a comparative study of these data and through information that tells us of their growth and development, we endeavour to reconstruct, as well as may be, the history of each particular culture. Some anthropologists even hope that the comparative study will reveal some tendencies of development that recur so often that significant generalisations regarding the processes of cultural growth will be discovered.\nTo the lay reader these studies are interesting on account of the strangeness of the scene, the peculiar attitudes characteristic of foreign cultures that set off in strong light our own achievements and behaviour.\nHowever, a systematic description of human activities gives us very little insight into the mental attitudes of the individual. His thoughts and actions appear merely as expressions of rigidly defined cultural forms. We learn little about his rational thinking, about his friendships and conflicts with his fellowmen. The personal side of the life of the individual is almost eliminated in the systematic presentation of the cultural life of the people. The picture is standardised, like a collection of laws that tell us how we should behave, and not how we behave; like rules set down defining the style of art, but not the way in which the artist elaborates his ideas of beauty; like a list of inventions, and not the way in which the individual overcomes technical difficulties that present themselves.\nAnd yet the way in which the personality reacts to culture is a matter that should concern us deeply and that makes the studies of foreign cultures a fruitful and useful field of research. We are accustomed to consider all those actions that are part and parcel of our own culture, standards which we follow automatically, as common to all mankind. They are deeply ingrained in our behaviour. We are moulded in their\n\u000fContents\nFOREWORD BY FRANZ BOAS\t iii\nPREFACE 1973 EDITION\t ix\n1. INTRODUCTION\t 1\n2. A DAY IN SAMOA\t 8\n3. THE EDUCATION OF THE SAMOAN CHILD\t 11\n4. THE SAMOAN HOUSEHOLD\t 22\n5. THE GIRL AND HER AGE GROUP\t 33\n6. THE GIRL IN THE COMMUNITY\t 41\n7. FORMAL SEX RELATIONS\t 48\n8. THE RôLE OF THE DANCE\t 61\n9. THE ATTITUDE TOWARDS PERSONALITY\t 68\n10. THE EXPERIENCE AND INDIVIDUALITY OF\nTHE AVERAGE GIRL\t 73\n11. THE GIRL IN CONFLICT\t 88\n12. MATURITY AND OLD AGE\t 103\n13. OUR EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS IN THE LIGHT OF\nSAMOAN CONTRASTS\t 108\n14. EDUCATION FOR CHOICE\t 130\nAPPENDIX\nI Notes to Chapters\t 139\nII Methodology of This Study\t 144\nIII Samoan Civilisation As It Is To-day\t 148\nIV The Mentally Defective and the Mentally\nDiseased\t 155\nV Materials Upon Which the Analysis Is Based\t 157\na. Sample Record Sheet\nb. Table I. Showing Menstrual History, Sex\nExperience and Residence in Pastor's\nHousehold\nc. Table II. Family Structure, and Analysis\nof Table\nd. Intelligence Tests Used\ne. Check List Used in Investigation of Each\nGirl's Experience\nGlossary of Native Terms Used in the Text\t 169\n-v-\n\u000fAcknowledgments\nI am indebted to the generosity of the Board of Fellowships in the Biological Sciences of the National Research Council whose award of a fellowship made this investigation possible. I have to thank my father for the gift of my travelling expenses to and from the Samoan Islands. To Professor Franz Boas I owe the inspiration and the direction of my problem, the training which prepared me to undertake such an investigation, and the criticism of my results.\nFor a co-operation which greatly facilitated the progress of my work in the Pacific, I am indebted to Dr. Herbert E. 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