Coming of Age in Samoa

Name: Coming of Age in Samoa
Author: Margaret Mead

by Margaret Mead

Anthropological study of adolescence and sexuality in Samoan culture

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Margaret Mead

Mead brought cultural anthropology to a mass audience with Coming of Age in Samoa, arguing for the cultural relativity of adolescent experience in ways that transformed American attitudes toward sexuality and child-rearing. She remains the most famous American anthropologist.

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