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Growing Up in New Guinea
Following the sensational success of her first book, "Coming of Age in Samoa," Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in "Growing Up in New Guinea," detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing village at a pivotal time -- after warfare had vanished but before...more
Paperback, 280 pages
Published
1970
by Pelican
(first published January 1st 1930)
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This book was interesting as both an ethnography about Manus as well as being a kind of historical record as an "old school" kind of ethnography.
I first read Margaret Mead in high school and it opened up me eyes to the world of anthropology. She is a great role model for women and her books are a must read for anyone interested in the topic.
This book, and "Coming of Age in Samoa", were startling finds on my parents' bookshelves during my pre-teen years, and started me on my journey towards a degree in anthropology.
1975 paperback edition with a new introduction by Margaret Mead. This was her second book.
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Margaret Mead was an American cultural anthropologist who was frequently a featured writer and speaker in the mass media throughout the '60s and '70s as a popularizer of the insights of anthropology into modern American and western life but also a respected, if controversial, academic anthropologist.
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