- Adolescence, Children, Children in the Samoan Islands, Girls
The classic anthropological study describes what it was like in the 1920s for girls growing up in the culture of the Samoan Islands, offering provocative insights into such topics as childhood, gender roles, and culture.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and cool.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Margaret Mead
- First published
- 1924
- Pages
- 297
- Publisher
- Ediciones Paidós, American Museum of Natural history, Creative Media Partners, LLC
- Editions
- 89
- Language
- English, Japanese, per, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9780451600448
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