who wrote the first ethnography on adolescence?

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who wrote the first ethnography on adolescence?

2007-03-15 10:18:23 · 3 answers · asked by Gardening Nanny 1 in Social Science ➔ Anthropology

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Margaret Mead's 'Coming of Age in Samoa' is generally regarded as one of the first books to deal with adolescence/teenagers in a cultural context. Her research is now somewhat debated.

2007-03-15 10:27:37 · answer #1 · answered by Cobalt 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋

Supposedly Margaret Meads 'Coming of Age in Samoa'... yet here in New Zealand, in Samoa and American Samoa (where she did her observations) many Samoans disagree after reading her book and to some extent joke about her findings. So most probably Margaret Mead ....

2007-03-16 04:27:28 · answer #2 · answered by nona9999 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coming_of_Age_in_Samoa

Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in Samoa

2007-03-16 00:39:57 · answer #3 · answered by Rick 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋