{"product_id":"growing-up-in-new-guinea-a-comparative-study-of-primitive-education-isbn-9780688178116","title":"Growing Up in New Guinea: A Comparative Study of Primitive Education","description":"\u003cp\u003eNow with a new introduction by Howard Gardner, Ph.D., Mead's second book following her landmark Coming of Age in Samoa, Growing Up in New Guinea established Mead as the first anthropologist to look at human development in a cross-cultural perspective.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMargaret Mead was 23 when she traveled alone to Samoa on her first expedition to the South Seas. Her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, chronicled that visit and launched her distinguished career. Following her landmark field work focusing on girls in American Samoa, noted anthropologist Margaret Mead found that she needed to study preadolescents in order to understand adolescents. In 1928 she went to Manus Island in New Guinea, where she studied the play and imaginations of younger children and how they were shaped by adult society. Mead and her second husband, Reo Fortune, lived in 24-hour contact with the inhabitants of this fishing village.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat did she discover about the nature of childhood, education, and the powerful influence of culture?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA Groundbreaking Look at Child Development:\u003c\/b\u003e Go inside the world of the Manus children of New Guinea to see how their society shapes them into physically competent, but unimaginative, individuals.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eClassic Cross-Cultural Study:\u003c\/b\u003e Discover Mead’s pioneering fieldwork, where she lived in 24-hour contact with a lagoon-dwelling fishing village to understand their lives from the inside.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eSocial Psychology in a Primitive Society:\u003c\/b\u003e Explore the stark contrast between the carefree, undisciplined world of Manus children and the rigid, property-obsessed world of the adults they will become.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFoundational Education Theory:\u003c\/b\u003e A powerful comparison that challenges Western assumptions about education, discipline, and what it means to grow up, as relevant today as when it was first written.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e | Following the sensational success of her first book, \u003cem\u003eComing of Age in Samoa,\u003c\/em\u003e Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in \u003cem\u003eGrowing Up in New Guinea,\u003c\/em\u003e detailing her study of the Manus, a New Guinea people still untouched by the outside world when she visited them in 1928. She lived in their noisy fishing village at a pivotal time -- after warfare had vanished but before missions and global commerce had begun to change their lives. She developed fascinating insights into their family lives, exploring their attitudes toward sex, marriage, the rearing of children, and the supernatural, which led her to see intriguing parallels with modern Western society. Reissued for the centennial of her birth and featuring introductions by Howard Gardner and Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson, this book offers important anthropological insights into human societies and vividly captures a vanished way of life.","brand":"Mariner Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44887445995749,"sku":"NP9780688178116","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780688178116.jpg?v=1730226133","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/growing-up-in-new-guinea-a-comparative-study-of-primitive-education-isbn-9780688178116","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}