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Growing Up in New Guinea
Growing Up in New Guinea
Author: Margaret Mead
Following the sensational success of her first book, Coming of Age in Samoa, Margaret Mead continued her brilliant work in Growing Up in New Guinea, 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 -- ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780440332701
ISBN-10: 0440332702
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Publisher: Dell Publishing
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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This is a well written work of sociology and anthropology, giving insight into a culture that no longer exists in this form. I found it very interesting.