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

by Margaret Mead

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688178111
• ISBN13: 9780688178116
• Release Date: February 2001
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.0"