Coming of Age in Samoa
Nonfiction work
By: Margaret Mead
Date: 1928
Source: Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization. New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1928. Reprint, American Museum of Natural History Special Members Edition. New York: American Museum of Natural History, in agreement with William Morrow and Co., 1973, 2–5.
About the Author: Margaret Mead (1901–1978) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and earned a Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University in 1929. From 1926 until her death in 1978, she was a curator in the Department of Anthropology at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. She wrote twenty-three books, coauthored more than twenty others, and wrote articles for Redbook magazine. She championed women's rights and opposed the nuclear arms race. At her death she was the world's most...
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