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Title: Coming of Age in Samoa
Author: Margaret Mead
Editors: Williams Morrow and Company (1928)
Summary: In the next chapter of Mead's novel, she looks at the circle of friends of a Samoan girl between the ages of roughly seven and fourteen. Unlike the men of Samoan culture at this age, the women are kept relatively isolated from girls their age, and do not have many friendships until they are older. The interaction they do have with women are generally much older, or much younger.
Discussion: In US culture, children spend a huge amount of time with kids their age between the ages of seven to fourteen, maybe even moreso than any other time in their life. The Samoan norms stand in stark contrast to this, and
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