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This work is in the public domain in its country of origin and other countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 70 years or fewer. Licensing Public domain Public domain false false Coming of age in Samoa : a psychological study of primitive youth for Western civilization by Mead, Margaret, 1901-1978. English: Title page of book Coming of Age in Samoa by Margaret Mead, with foreward by Franz Boaz, first published 1928.

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