Coming Of Age In Samoa Margaret Mead by Margaret Mead instant download after payment.

Modern descriptions of primitive people give us a
picture of their culture classified according to the varied
aspects of human life. We learn about inventions,
household economy, family and political organisation, and
religious beliefs and practices. Through a comparative
study of these data and through information that tells us
of their growth and development, we endeavour to
reconstruct, as well as may be, the history of each
particular culture. Some anthropologists even hope that
the comparative study will reveal some tendencies of
development that recur so often that significant
generalisations regarding the processes of cultural growth
will be discovered.
To the lay reader these studies are interesting on
account of the strangeness of the scene, the peculiar
attitudes characteristic of foreign cultures that set off in
strong light our own achievements and behaviour.
However, a systematic description of human activities
gives us very little insight into the mental attitudes of the
individual...