Reference Information
Title: Coming of Age in Samoa
Author: Margaret Mead
Editors: Williams Morrow and Company (1928)
Appendix III: Samoan Civilization as it is Today (12 pages)
Summary
In this chapter, Mead discusses Samoa when the book was published. She talks about its geography, housing, clothing and demographic qualities. She then talks about the changes that have taken place as a result of outside influence and interaction with other governments.
She discusses schooling and the melding of European beliefs and mechanical devices. Mead also goes on about how Samoa was before white influence. Samoans have been able to take parts from other cultures and incorporate them into their own without losing sight of their own ways.
Discussion
I thought the section about how the Samoans were able to incorporate different parts of other cultures into their own without losing sight of their own was a really fascinating section.
In this chapter, Mead discusses Samoa when the book was published. She talks about its geography, housing, clothing and demographic qualities. She then talks about the changes that have taken place as a result of outside influence and interaction with other governments.
She discusses schooling and the melding of European beliefs and mechanical devices. Mead also goes on about how Samoa was before white influence. Samoans have been able to take parts from other cultures and incorporate them into their own without losing sight of their own ways.
Discussion
I thought the section about how the Samoans were able to incorporate different parts of other cultures into their own without losing sight of their own was a really fascinating section.
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