| Author/Editor: | Mead, Margaret |
| Publisher: | Harper Perennial |
| Date: | 1971 |
| Binding: | Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. |
| Condition: | USED - Very good. An unmarked copy with tight binding and minimal edge wear. |
Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead's psychological study of youth in a primitive society, is today recognized as a scientific classic. However, when first published, as Dr. Mead points out in her preface to this Morrow Quill edition, it was "the first piece of work by a serious professional anthropologist written for the educated layman in which all the paraphernalia of scholarship designed to convince one's professional colleagues and confuse the laity was deliberately laid aside."