Mead, Margaret 1901-1978 creator Boas, Franz 1858-1942 text utu 2024 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation" by Margaret Mead is an anthropological study published in 1928. Based on fieldwork with adolescent girls in American Samoa, Mead explores whether teenage turmoil stems from biology or culture. Her findings challenged Western assumptions about adolescence and sparked fierce debate in the nature versus nurture controversy. The book became anthropology's most widely read work, yet remains intensely contested, with critics questioning Mead's methods and conclusions about Samoan sexual norms. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa Release date is 2024-11-16 Robert Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928 Adolescence Samoans -- Psychology Girls -- Samoan Islands Children -- Samoan Islands Women, Samoan -- Social life and customs Samoan Islands -- Social life and customs DU New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928 28020670 https://archive.org/details/comingofageinsam00mead/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74750 https://archive.org/details/comingofageinsam00mead/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/74750 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134730.0 74750