Summary: The introduction is what you would expect. The author lays out what she perceives as a problem (extant attitudes about adolescence not having a proper scientific basis), what she is going to do to attempt to correct the problem, and why she chose Samoa to do it.
Discussion: The most interesting item I have to note is that after rejecting the idea of simply taking 500 children from large American and 500 small ones because she can't be sure what factors are at work besides size, she states she is comfortable with generalizing from three Samoan villages to fifty due to the 'uniformity and simplicity' of the culture. That strikes me as reaching a little bit.
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