Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation is a 1928 book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based...

Coming of age ceremonies Coming of age is a young person's transition from being a child to being an adult. The specific age at which this transition takes...

Samoans or Samoan people (Samoan: tagata Sāmoa) are the Indigenous Polynesian people of the Samoan Islands, an archipelago in Polynesia, who speak the...

"Freud's 5 Stages of Psychosexual Development". SimplyPsychology. Retrieved March 22, 2021. Mead, Margaret. "Coming of Age in Samoa (Photograph and Scholarly...

research in Samoa in the 1920s, after which she published her findings in a work titled Coming of Age in Samoa. Ta’u also has the highest mountain in American...

Mouton. Coming of Age in Samoa (1928) Growing Up in New Guinea (1930) The Changing Culture of an Indian Tribe (1932) Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive...

Archaeology of Samoa Architecture of Samoa Coming of Age in Samoa Culture of Samoa First Samoan Civil War Samoan unification Second Samoan Civil War Siege of Apia...

Samoa, officially the Independent State of Samoa and known until 1997 as Western Samoa (Samoan: Sāmoa i Sisifo), is an island country in Polynesia, consisting...

American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean. Centered on 14°18′S 170°42′W...

their group in the migrated land, they would prefer getting her married to a boy from back home (Gujarat) even though boys of marriageable age would be available...

MacArthur, Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man by Siegfried Sassoon, Tarzan, Lord of the Jungle by Edgar Rice Burroughs, Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead...

The traditional culture of Samoa is a communal way of life based on Fa'a Samoa, the unique socio-political culture. In Samoan culture, most activities...

kinship is a mode of descent calculated from an ancestor counted through any combination of male and female links, or a system of bilateral kinship where...

form of exogamy is dual exogamy, in which two groups continually intermarry with each other. In social science, exogamy is viewed as a combination of two...

marriage is a type of marriage in which a husband engages in marriage or sexual relations with the sister of his wife, usually after the death of his wife or...

Karl Mannheim's Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge is published. Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa is published. Max Scheler's Social Mobility...

system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage. It generally involves the inheritance of property...

centralized forms of community organization and government, and have existed in every country.[citation needed] Members may identify with a coat of arms or other...

In law and in cultural anthropology, affinity is the kinship relationship created or that exists between two people as a result of someone's marriage....

in Africa, a particularly strong concern for incest is a fundamental issue among the age systems of East Africa. Here, the avoidance between men of an...

S. military in Iraq in 2008 found that suicide bombers were almost always single men without children aged 18 to 30 (with a mean age of 22), and were...

marriages for daughters at a young age, in order to end their economic responsibility for their daughter. Dowry has existed in Persia for over 1000 years, and...

Celtic, St Mirren). Margaret Mead (1901–1978; aged 76), American cultural anthropologist (Coming of Age in Samoa). Maria Menounos (born 1978), Greek-American...

as sisters with those who fall around their age range or aunt with those older than them, and so on. In October 2013, Pakistani Christians and Muslims...

groups, such that class and other hierarchal systems did not matter in terms of milk kinship participation. Traditionally speaking, this practice predates...

son (by another woman) of her first husband, so she could end up marrying her brother-in-law or stepson; the difference in age did not matter. Hungarians...

husbands Group marriage, where the family unit consists of multiple husbands and multiple wives of legal age Polygyny, the practice wherein a man has more than...

degree of consanguinity that gives rise to this prohibition varies from place to place. On the other hand, around 20% of the global population lives in areas...

hunting Paleolithic Age: prehistoric period marked by the development of the most primitive stone tools Militarism: a belief in a strong military and...

problem in many African and Asian counties. Infant mortality is the death of a child less than one year of age. Child mortality is the death of a child...