Coming of Age in Samoa Author:Margaret Mead Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead's psychological study of youth in a primitive society, is today recognized as a scientific classic. However, when first published, as Dr. Mead points out in her preface to this Morrow Quill edition, it was "the first piece of work by a serious professional anthropologist written for the educated layman in wh... more »ich all the paraphernalia of scholarship designed to convince one's professional colleagues and confuse the laity was deliberately laid aside."« less