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

Mead, Margaret

ISBN 10: 068807989X / ISBN 13: 9780688079895

Published by Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York, 1975

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8vo, 384 pp., With a new preface by the author.

Seller Inventory # 065607

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education
• Publisher: Morrow Quill Paperbacks, New York
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 068807989X
• ISBN 13: 9780688079895
• Binding: softcover
• Edition: Later prt.
• Condition: Nearly fine copy
• Seller catalogs:
  • Anthropology

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Synopsis

The learning experiences of children in Manus society are studied and used as the framework for a discussion of modern educational problems

About the Author

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.