Adolescent Storm and Stress: An Evaluation of the Mead-freeman Controversy

by James E. Côté

In 1928, Margaret Mead published her first book, entitled Coming of Age in Samoa, in which she described to the Western world an exotic culture where people "came of age" with a minimum of "storm and stress." In 1983, Derek Freeman, an Australian anthropologist, published a book in which he systematically attacked Mead's conclusions about that culture and the way people came of age. Since then, a great deal of attention has been directed toward...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138873314
• ISBN13: 9781138873315
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"