Coming of Age in Samoa
Margaret Mead
Summary:
Until girls are about the age of 6, they have very little interactions with other children besides those in the household. At the age of 7, the children naturally begin to separate into groups according to their sex and this social stigma of intermingling with the opposite sex is enforced. The relationship in these groups was not strong. They play within the group and work at home. It is difficult for young girls when they have no girls around their age in their neighborhood to associate with. The relationships shift and change with age and sex status. The older girls continuously overlook a young girl's love life. Boys follow a simmilar situation when growing up paralleled by chiefdom and hunting tasks.
Discussion:
Itis interesting to see how young boys and girls are raised in the society. They are separated since children and are raised like that. They seem to go through a somewhat typical teenager phase of love and haiting their elders.
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