Sex and temperament in three primitive societies / Margaret Mead.
Publication details: New York, W. Morrow & company, 1963.Description: xiv, 335 p. illSubject(s):- Arapesh (Papua New Guinean people)
- Biwat (Papua New Guinean people)
- Chambri (Papua New Guinean people)
- Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea
- Personality and culture -- Papua New Guinea
- Sex role -- Papua New Guinea
- Cross-Cultural Comparison
- Identification (Psychology)
- Personality Development
- Papua New Guinea -- Social life and customs
- GN671.N5 M45
- GN 479
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Part one: the mountain-dwelling Arapesh -- Mountain life -- A co-operative society -- The birth of an Arapesh child -- Early influences that mould the Arapesh personality -- The growth and initation of an Arapesh boy -- The growth and betrothal of an Arapesh girl -- Arapesh marriage -- The Arapesh ideal and those who deviate from it -- Part two: The river-dwelling Mundugumor -- The pace of life in a cannibal tribe -- The structure of Mundugumor society -- The development of the individual Mundugumor -- Youth and marriage among the Mundugumor -- Deviants from the Mundugumor ideal -- Part three: The lake-dwelling Tchambuli -- The pattern of Tchambuli social life -- The contrasting roÌles of Tchambuli men and women -- The unplaced Tchambuli man and woman -- Part four: The implication of these results -- The standardization of sex-temperament -- The deviant -- Conclusion.