Thursday, March 3, 2011

Microblog #33, "Coming of Age in Samoa, Chapter 11"

Summary
This chapters covers sources of potential conflict for Samoan girls. First it describes the various social pressures, then covers the cases of some specific delinquents.

Discussions
I find it hard to believe the rate of such things is as remarkably low as Dr. Mead says it is. Either the sample size is a lot smaller than I guesstimated, she missed something (the Samoans were noted to be a recalcitrant bunch), or I'm just weirded out.

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