Book
Growing up in New Guinea: a comparative study of primitive education
W. Morrow & company • New York • Published In 1930 • Pages:
By: Mead, Margaret.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This source is a study of the various factors in Manus society affecting the growth and development of an individual from infancy to adulthood. Mead feels that the manner in which a child absorbs the traditions, prohibitions, and values of the adult members of his/her society has great implications for education, not only among the Manus but also in our own society. This thesis, which is develops to considerable extent in Part 2 of this work, has not been indexed for subjects because of its lack of pertinent data on Manus. Those aspects of Manus ethnography discussed in Part 1 of this source pertain to daily routine, early education, family life, the child in relation to the adult world and to the supernatural, the child's world, personality development, Manus attitudes toward sex, the adolescent, and the eventual absorption of the adolescent into adult society.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Theoretical orientation in research and its results
- Personality development
- Life history materials
- Mode of marriage
- Arranging a marriage
- Nuptials
- Household
- Family relationships
- Childhood activities
- Puberty and initiation
- Adolescent activities
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Manus
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2005
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Melanesia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- John Beierle ; 1962
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1928-1929
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1928-1929
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Village of Peri, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea
- NotesAdditional notes
- by Margaret Mead
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 30027070
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Manus (Papua New Guinea people)