From the second hand bookshop we descended on en masse during the 2005 BCNZ Convention.

This book has been totally discredited in recent years, so of course I want to read it now :-)

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Actually, it was pretty interesting. It was written in 1928, so is interesting just for its portrait of a way of life in the process of changing from the traditional to a more westernised version. It's also inadvertantly a wonderful glimpse into the attitudes and ideas of 1928 America, as Mead can't help bringing her cultural viewpoint to her study.

Interestingly, according to an article on Wikipedia, the discrediting of her research has in itself been partly discredited. Having read the book now, I wouldn't say her investigative method was perfect, nor were the conclusions she reached, but I think her work is still of some value.

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RELEASE NOTES:

In the Anthropology and Sociology Department, on a windowsill on the third floor.