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    <body><![CDATA[While interesting from a sociological standpoint, I enjoyed &quot;Letters from the Field&quot; more, and reading the second book improved my experience with &quot;Coming of Age in Samoa,&quot; as the personal account of Mead's studies put all in a clearer perspective. It was a good experiment to rea...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/70274211">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Though some of Mead's conclusions might fairly be called naive, her study of adolescent Samoan girls in the context of their culture is immensely illuminating, not only for its own sake--I confess I knew almost nothing about Samoan culture, adolescent or otherwise--but also for how starkly it highli...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21411202">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book.  When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's <em>On the Origin of Species,</em> for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.</p><p>Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with <em>Coming of Age in Samoa.</em>   It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork.  Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations.  Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures.  The &quot;civilized&quot; world, she taught us had much to learn from the &quot;primitive.&quot;  Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Margaret Meade made up her supposed research results to please her mentor and boss when she made the trip to Samoa at age 21. See Margaret Meade and the Heretic, by Derek Freeman, Professor at the Australian National University.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Dated but somehow still fresh - as one of the earliest relatively unbiased studies of another culture by a Westerner it's as much history of ideas as ethnology]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[good book..<br/>my handbook in college.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is a fascinating document of its times, at times irritatingly list-like, but also very useful in talking to people from Samoa, as I did recently.  It is a book that accommodates difference of opinion as to its treatment of locals as well as its treatment of gender and societal issues.  It ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/13502698">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[My tastes are quite offbeat and run the gamut of anything related to science.  An interesting exploration of modern society through the example of a primitive one.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Probably out of fashion among some anthro-types, but still insightful and thought-provoking. And not so long (which means a lot after having just read a 989 p book)]]></body>
    
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