Reference Information
Title: Coming of Age in Samoa
Author: Margaret Mead
Editors: Williams Morrow and Company (1928)
Chapter 9: The Attitude of the Personality (9 pages)
Summary
Mead discusses personality of Samoans and their attitudes towards it in this chapter. Musu means "unwilling and obstinate". Mead finds that this is treated with "almost superstitious respect" and that when a person feels musu, other Samoans don't question it. They accept it and that's that. Mead found a distinct pattern in the way that Samoans describe others. They list their traits as follows: sex, age, rank, relationship, and activities. Attitudes of a person are typically described as "good" or "bad".
Discussion
I thought that the privacy Samoan's offer each other to be interesting. Sometimes it would be nice to have a bad mood and it be left at that, rather than people pry into your feelings. :/
Mead discusses personality of Samoans and their attitudes towards it in this chapter. Musu means "unwilling and obstinate". Mead finds that this is treated with "almost superstitious respect" and that when a person feels musu, other Samoans don't question it. They accept it and that's that. Mead found a distinct pattern in the way that Samoans describe others. They list their traits as follows: sex, age, rank, relationship, and activities. Attitudes of a person are typically described as "good" or "bad".
Discussion
I thought that the privacy Samoan's offer each other to be interesting. Sometimes it would be nice to have a bad mood and it be left at that, rather than people pry into your feelings. :/
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