COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA
Reading edition
A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western Civilisation
By
MARGARET MEAD
Assistant Curator of Ethnology American Museum of Natural History
Foreword by Franz Boas
Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY
NEW YORK MCMXXVIII
COMING OF AGE IN SAMOA
With Hibiscus in her hair
To the Girls of Taū
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED
’Ou te avatu lenei tusitala iā te ’outou O Teineīti ma le Aualuma o Taū