From the South Seas (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Margaret Mead
- First Published: 1939
- Type of Work: Social criticism
- Genres: Criticism, Nonfiction, Anthropology
- Subjects: Culture, Adolescence, Sex or sexuality, Gender roles, Islands, Human behavior, Lifestyles, South Pacific, Pacific Ocean
Form and Content
From the South Seas: Studies of Adolescence and Sex in Primitive Societies is a compendium of three related works by anthropologist Margaret Mead: Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization (1928), Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education (1930), and Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935). Also included is a new general introduction by the author in which Mead suggests that the three books followed one another naturally, as did the studies...
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