![]() ![]() Based on a 9-month study conducted in a small village of 600 people on the island of Ta'ū, the easternmost island of Samoa, Meade used her findings to assert her theory that culture had a leading influence on psycho-sexual development. On publication, Coming of Age in Samoa drew both enormous popular attention and academic interest, establishing Mead as a leading figure in American anthropology and generating a heightened awareness of ethnographic study in the United States. An exceptional example of this landmark work in ethnographic and anthropological thought, we have never seen another signed example. Signed by Margaret Mead on the half-title page. ![]() New York: William Morrow & Company, 1928.įirst edition of Mead’s pioneering work which, upon publication, established her as the most famous anthropologist in the world. Coming of Age In Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation. ![]()
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