Title: Coming of Age in Samoa
Author: Margaret Mead
Editors: Williams Morrow and Company (1928)
Summary: In the fourth chapter of Coming of Age in Samoa, Mead begins to discuss the family unit in Samoa. For Samoan families, titles are incredibly powerful, and dictate most of the interactions. Also age is an important factor, with Samoan culture, with older Samoans having authority over their younger counterparts.Discussion: This chapter was fairly interesting. The various titles were unique, and I found the separations of siblings a strange deviation from western cultures.
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