Excerpt from Coming of Age in Samoa: A Psychological Study of Primitive Youth for Western CivilisationTo the lay reader these studies are interesting on account Of the strangeness Of the scene, the peculiar attitudes characteristic of foreign cultures that set Off in strong light our Own achievements and behaviour.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.