Coming of Age in Samoa

出版者:Harper Perennial Modern Classics

作者:Margaret Mead

页数:256

出版时间:2001-03-01

价格:USD 14.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780688050337

图书标签:人类学玛格利特米德Anthropology美国文化观察文化研究科普社会经济

Rarely do science and literature come together in the same book. When they do -- as in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species, for example -- they become classics, quoted and studied by scholars and the general public alike.</P>

Margaret Mead accomplished this remarkable feat not once but several times, beginning with Coming of Age in Samoa. It details her historic journey to American Samoa, taken where she was just twenty-three, where she did her first fieldwork. Here, for the first time, she presented to the public the idea that the individual experience of developmental stages could be shaped by cultural demands and expectations. Adolescence, she wrote, might be more or less stormy, and sexual development more or less problematic in different cultures. The "civilized" world, she taught us had much to learn from the "primitive." Now this groundbreaking, beautifully written work as been reissued for the centennial of her birth, featuring introductions by Mary Pipher and by Mead's daughter, Mary Catherine Bateson.</P>

读后感

上世紀三十年代，初出茅廬的人類學家瑪格麗特·米德因為《薩摩亞人的成年——為西方文明所做的原始人類的青年心理研究》（以下簡稱《成年》）而一炮走紅。《成年》被譯為數十種語言，在各國的暢銷勢頭經久不衰，從而成為人類學的經典讀本。這不僅與該書細膩生動的文風有關...  

书里有一句让我印象深刻的话，“漂洋过海的旅行者总是要比那些坐井观天的人聪明伶俐”。暂不论其本身的学术意义，几十年前，人类学家漂洋过海，跨出自己舒适圈，去了解他者的文化，回归审视自己的文化，这是值得敬佩和尊重的。 内容方面，因为我只算人类学入门学生，相比于结构...  

用户评价

两个字：胡扯

两个字：胡扯

Beautiful book written by a 24-year-old! In many ways, Mead's problems are still our problems, her proposals still relevant today. Yet it's hard to imagine a book like this being published today. Anthropology has become far more sophisticated in dealing with alterity but the flip side is the repression of an earlier, more speculative, impulse.

Beautiful book written by a 24-year-old! In many ways, Mead's problems are still our problems, her proposals still relevant today. Yet it's hard to imagine a book like this being published today. Anthropology has become far more sophisticated in dealing with alterity but the flip side is the repression of an earlier, more speculative, impulse.

萨摩亚岛上小朋友的青春期比我们的轻松的多，但是以后我教育小朋友的时候如果用萨摩亚人那一套，小朋友会无法生存在我们所处的世界里