Margaret Mead, "Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization", 1928.

Margaret Mead, “Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization”, 1928 was an anthropological study Samoan youth.   This study of the psychology of gender and sexuality, made this book a best-seller for Margaret Mead while she was still in her twenties.   Ruth Benedict was colleague and lover of … Continue reading Margaret Mead, "Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization", 1928.