Growing Up in New Guinea

Growing Up in New Guinea

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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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Emily
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.
Shannon
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.
Hilary
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.
Thom Dunn
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.

Her reports as to the purportedly healthy attitude towards sex in South Pacific and Southeast Asian...more
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Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies Blackberry Winter: My Earlier Years Male and Female Letters from the Field, 1925-1975

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