Copyright

A hardcover edition of this book was originally published in 1930 by William Morrow and Company.

COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA. Copyright © 1928, 1955, 1961 by Margaret Mead. Words for a New Century copyright © 2001 by Mary Catherine Bateson. Introduction to the Perennial Classics Edition copyright © 2001 by Mary Pipher, Ph.D. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

First Quill edition published 1973.

First Perennial Classics edition published 2001.

Perennial Classics are published by Perennial, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Mead, Margaret.

Coming of age in Samoa : a psychological study of primitive youth for western civilisation / by Margaret Mead ; foreword by Franz Boas.

           p.      cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

 ISBN 0-688-05033-6 (alk. paper)

EPub Edition March 2016 ISBN 9780062566096

1. Samoans—Psychology. 2. Girls—Samoan Islands. 3. Children—Samoan Islands. 4. Women, Samoan—Social life and customs. 5. Adolescence. 6. Samoan Islands—Social life and customs. I. Title.

   DU813.M4     2001                                                                                    
   306'.09961'3—dc21                                                                                                00-057528

15    16    17    images/RRD    30    29    28    27