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

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