Coming of age in Samoa

by Margaret Mead

COMING OF AGE
IN SAMOA

A Psychological Study of Primitive
Youth for Western Civilisation

By

MARGARET MEAD

Assistant Curator of Ethnology
American Museum of
Natural History

Foreword by Franz Boas

Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University

WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY

NEW YORK MCMXXVIII

COMING OF AGE
IN SAMOA

With Hibiscus in her hair

To the Girls of Taū

THIS BOOK IS
DEDICATED

’Ou te avatu
lenei tusitala
iā te ’outou
O Teineīti ma le Aualuma
o Taū