Margaret Mead and Samoa

Margaret Mead and Samoa
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Publisher : Penguin Group USA
Total Pages : 379
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ISBN-10 : 0140225552
ISBN-13 : 9780140225556
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Book Synopsis Margaret Mead and Samoa by : Derek Freeman

Download or read book Margaret Mead and Samoa written by Derek Freeman and published by Penguin Group USA. This book was released on 1985-01 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1928 Margaret Mead announced her stunning discovery of a culture in which the storm and stress of adolescence didn't exist. The resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa has since become a classic - and the best-selling anthropology book of all time. Within the nature-nurture controversy that still divides scientists, Mead's evidence has long been a crucial negative instance, an apparent proof of the sovereignty of culture over biology.


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