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...

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...

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...

of Samoa Architecture of Samoa Coming of Age in Samoa First Samoan Civil War Geography of Samoa Samoan culture Samoan language Samoans Second Samoan Civil...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

monogamous. Halakha of the Dead Sea Sect saw prohibition of polygamy as coming from the Pentateuch (Damascus Document 4:20–5:5, one of the Dead Sea Scrolls)...

The Samoan Islands were first settled some 3,500 years ago as part of the Austronesian expansion. Both Samoa's early history and its more recent history...

French linage, from ligne, from Latin linea (“line”); equivalent to line + -age. A lineage is a descent group characterized by unilineal descent. This means...

a founding member or apical ancestor who serves as a symbol of the clan's unity. Clans, in indigenous societies, were not endogamous: their members could...

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...

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...

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...

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

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....

Mead, M. (1928) "Coming of age in Samoa". New York: Morrow & Co. p.105 Malinowski, B. (1929) The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. Distributed...

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...

descendant, in legal usage, is a blood relative in the direct line of descent – the children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, etc. of a person. In a legal...

the English-speaking world, a niece or nephew is a child of an individual's sibling or sibling-in-law. A niece is female and a nephew is male, and they would...