Growing Up in New Guinea
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Growing Up in New Guinea is a classic anthropological study by Margaret Mead that examines childhood, adolescence, and cultural development among the Manus people of Papua New Guinea.
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| instanceOf |
anthropological study
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book → |
| academicDiscipline |
anthropology
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| author |
Margaret Mead
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| contributionTo |
culture and personality school in anthropology
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debates on nature versus nurture → |
| countryOfSubject |
Papua New Guinea
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| ethnographicMethod |
fieldwork
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participant observation → |
| examines |
impact of culture on emotional development
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learning processes in non-literate societies → relationship between culture and personality → |
| field |
cultural anthropology
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| firstPublicationPlace |
United States
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| focusesOn |
comparison with Western societies
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education in traditional societies → enculturation → family structure → gender roles → personality development → socialization of children → |
| genre |
ethnography
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| hasMainCharacterType |
Manus children
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Manus parents → |
| influenced |
later anthropological studies of childhood
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| language |
English
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| nonfiction |
true
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| notableFor |
cross-cultural comparison of adolescence
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detailed description of Manus child-rearing practices → |
| partOfSeries |
Margaret Mead’s studies of culture and personality
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| placeOfFieldwork |
Admiralty Islands
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| predecessor |
Coming of Age in Samoa
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| publisher |
William Morrow and Company
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| region |
Melanesia
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| setting |
Manus Island
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| subdiscipline |
childhood studies
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psychological anthropology → |
| subject |
Manus people
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adolescence → childhood → cultural development → |
| successor |
Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
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| targetAudience |
general readers interested in anthropology
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scholars → students → |
| timePeriodOfFieldwork |
1920s
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Margaret Mead
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Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies
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