Thursday, January 20, 2011

Book Reading #2: Coming of Age in Samoa

Chapter 1


Summary

This chapter discusses reasons about why adolescents act in the ways they do. Our society tends to blame it on it being an awkward time in life where there are learning how to integrate into the world. To see if this holds true regardless of culture, she traveled to Samoa to investigate if this is also true with their society.

Discussion

It was interesting to see a number of the different cultural aspects. I have taken a course in Cultural Anthropology and I could see how aspects of what I learned applied to this text. It was interesting to see how she lays out her goals.

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