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082			_a307.7 FRE
100			_aFreeman, Derek
245		0	_aMargaret mead and samoa: making and unmaking of an anthropological myth
260			_aEngland
260			_bPenguin
260			_c1984
300			_a379p.
520			_aBY FAR the most widely known of Margaret Mead's numerous books is Coming of Age in Samoa, based on fieldwork on which she embarked in 1925 at the instigation of Franz Boas, her professor at Columbia University. Boas had sent the 23-year-old Mead to Samoa to study adolescence, and she returned with a startling conclusion. Adolescence was known in America and Europe as a time of emotional stresses and conflicts. If, Mead argued, these problems were caused by the biological processes of maturation, then they would necessarily be found in all human societies. But in Samoa, she reported, life was easy and casual, and adolescence was the easiest and most pleasant time of life.
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