Growing Up in New Guinea.
Mead, Margaret. Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education. New York: William Morrow & Company, (1930).
8vo.; illustrated; frontispiece photograph; bright green cloth, stamped with blue palm tree design; purple, yellow and aqua price-clipped illustrated dust-jacket with hut and canoe motif; few closed tears to jacket, else fine.
First edition; published just two years after the groundbreaking Coming of Age in Samoa, her first commercially-published book. In Growing Up in New Guinea, Mead continues her exploration of women’s roles in different societies: her study, which she hoped would implicitly address “aspects of educational and emotional problems in America today,” posed such questions as “Are we bringing up our children to a harmonious adjustment to our own age and civilization?”; and “Is romantic love an illusion?”(from the dust-jacket). Much of this exhaustive study is focused on the upbringing of girls in New Guinea society; more than half of the photographs document female coming of age rituals.
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