Author Question: The important contribution of Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa was: a. To introduce ... (Read 142 times)

vHAUNG6011 · **on:** Jul 10, 2018

The important contribution of Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa was:

a. To introduce American readers to Pacific Island lifestyles.
b. To support the notion that you could have a socially conservative society with sexually permissive lifestyles.
c. To prove that homosexuality was one variety of normal sexual behavior.
d. To show that American ideas of adolescence were not universal.
e. To demonstrate the value of rites of passage in maintaining social solidarity.

Question 2

Sexual relations in Mangaia:

a. Don't begin until men and women are in their thirties.
b. Are as common between men as between men and women.
c. Are a very serious and private matter, generally kept secret until the birth of children.
d. Take place in private, but with much public joking.
e. Frequently take place in public.