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Books by Margaret Mead:

COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA

A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation

ISBN 0-688-05033-6 (A Perennial Classic)

Margaret Mead’s psychological study of youth in a primitive society is today recognized as a scientific classic, detailing her historic solo field work in American Samoa. Focusing on adolescent girls, the book presented to the public for the first time the idea that the psychological experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations.

GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA

A Comparative Study of Primitive Education

ISBN 0-688-17811-1 (A Perennial Classic)

On Manus Island in New Guinea, Mead studied the play and imaginations of younger children and how they were shaped by adult society. Her enlightening and perceptive analysis of Manus family life—attitudes toward sex, marriage, the raising of children, and the supernatural—is not only fascinating in itself, but is made doubly so by the intriguing parallels Mead draws with modern life.

SEX AND TEMPERAMENT

In Three Primitive Societies

ISBN 0-06-093495-6

Mead’s sociological study of gender in three New Guinea tribes—the gentle, mountain-dwelling Arapesh, the fierce, cannibalistic Mundugumor, and the graceful headhunters of Tchambuli—advances the theory that many so-called masculine and feminine characteristics are not based on fundamental sex differences, but reflect the cultural conditioning of different societies.

MALE AND FEMALE

A Study of the Sexes in a Changing World

ISBN 0-06-093496-4

The classic gender study by renowned anthropologist Margaret Mead, first published in 1949. Drawing on her anthropological research in seven Pacific island cultures, Mead examines the inherent meaning of “maleness” and “femaleness” and defines basic gender differences that recur around the world. She then delves into the fascinating and complex sexual patterns that drive American society.

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