Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education by Margaret

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Following the sensational success of her first book, "Coming of Age in Samoa," Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in "Growing Up in New Guinea," detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing village at a pivotal time — after warfare had vanished but before missions and global commerce had begun to change their lives. She developed fascinating insights into their family lives, exploring their attitudes toward sex, marriage, the rearing of children, and the supernatural, which led her to see intriguing parallels with modern Western society. Reissued for the centennial of her birth and featuring introductions by Howard Gardner and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, this book offers important anthropological insights into human societies and vividly captures a vanished way of life.

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Now with a new introduction by Howard Gardner, Ph.D., Mead's second book following her landmark Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea established Mead as the first anthropologist to look at human development in a cross-cultural perspective.Margaret Mead was 23 when she traveled alone to Samoa on her first expedition to the South Seas. Her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, chronicled that visit and launched her distinguished career. Following her landmark field work focusing on girls in American Samoa, noted anthropologist Margaret Mead found that she needed to study preadolescents in order to understand adolescents. In 1928 she went to Manus Island in New Guinea, where she studied the play and imaginations of younger children and how they were shaped by adult society. Mead and her second husband, Reo Fortune, lived in 24-hour contact with the inhabitants of this fishing village.

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Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing village at a pivotal time -- after warfare had vanished but before missions and global commerce had begun to change their lives. She developed fascinating insights into their family lives, exploring their attitudes toward sex, marriage, the rearing of children, and the supernatural, which led her to see intriguing parallels with modern Western society. Reissued for the centennial of her birth and featuring introductions by Howard Gardner and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, this book offers important anthropological insights into human societies and vividly captures a vanished way of life.

Author Biography

Margaret Mead (1901-1978) began her remarkable career when she visited Samoa at the age of twenty-three, which led to her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa. She went on to become one of the most influential women of our time, publishing some forty works and serving as Curator of Ethnology at the American Museum of Natural History as well as president of major scientific associations. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom following her death in 1978.

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In Growing Up in New Guinea, Mead recounts her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still almost untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. Writers have been telling parents how to raise their children for centuries; however, the systematic observation of child development was then just beginning, and Mead was among the first to study it cross-culturally. Everywhere she went, she included women and children, who had been invisible to early researchers. Her study of the Manus continues to affect the way parents, teachers, and policy makers look at children.Within the space of a few years, Mead had studied growing up in two radically different societies. This comparison not only confirmed her own view of the importance of culture in childrearing but also stimulated her to think about patterns across cultures: Is there an integral connection between the treatment of young children and the personalities that they come to exhibit as adults? As Mead's ideas became known in the United States and other countries, ordinary citizens as well as scholars acquired a new appreciation of the importance of childrearing practices and the diversity of coherent life patterns around the globe. We now take for granted what Mead first made clear to the world.Just as we return to the greatest works of art at various ages and derive new inspirations from them, so too, we can revisit important scientific treatises and wrestle with them anew. For raising many of the right questions, coming up with some acute answers, and rendering one compelling---if partia--picture of an intriguing society, we continue to remain in the debt of Margaret Mead.As a cognitive neuroscientist, Howard Gardner brings an unique perspective to Growing Up in New Guinea. In the Introduction to the Perennial Classic edition he gracefully acknowledges the historical baggage Mead carried on her journey to New Guinea, and gently reminds current students to acknowledge influences that shape contemporary perspectives as well.

Details ISBN0688178111 Author Margaret Mead Pages 320 Language English ISBN-10 0688178111 ISBN-13 9780688178116 Media Book Format Paperback Imprint HarperCollins Country of Publication United States Short Title GROWING UP IN NEW GUINEA Series Perennial Classics (Paperback) Birth 1901 Death 1978 Place of Publication New York, NY Subtitle A Comparative Study of Primitive Education DOI 10.1604/9780688178116 UK Release Date 2001-02-20 Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc Audience General DEWEY 301.4310995 AU Release Date 2001-11-28 NZ Release Date 2001-11-28 Imprint US Harper Perennial Modern Classics Publisher US HarperCollins Year 2001 Publication Date 2001-02-20 US Release Date 2001-02-20 We've got this

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