Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilization

Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret mead's psychological study of youth in a primitive society, is today recogniced as a scientific classic. However, when first published, as the late Dr. mead pointed out in her preface, 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 convice one's professional colleagues and confuse the laity was deliberately laid aside."