Book Author: Margaret MeadCHAPTER 3: The Education of a Samoan Child
Summary
This chapter starts by highlighting the importance that is given to a child's birth. The whole communitiy gets involved, and the mother must act in a way that avoids conveying stress, or pain. It is taboo for a mother to act that way. We also learn about of the Samoan's superstitious beliefs.
In the second part of this chapter, Mead goes on a lenghty, and detailed description of a Samoan girl's upbringing. She also does the same for a Samoan boy.
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DiscussionThis chapter starts by highlighting the importance that is given to a child's birth. The whole communitiy gets involved, and the mother must act in a way that avoids conveying stress, or pain. It is taboo for a mother to act that way. We also learn about of the Samoan's superstitious beliefs.
In the second part of this chapter, Mead goes on a lenghty, and detailed description of a Samoan girl's upbringing. She also does the same for a Samoan boy.
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This chapter provides useful details about a samoan girl's upbringing, and that of a boy. I was surprised to learn that the girls that do go to school, have the same faith as other girls when they get back to their villages. Once back, they go through a training routine to eventually become married women. Men, as Mead puts it, have more pressure on themselves, because the aptitudes and skill they demonstrate determines the role they will play in the village. There is a general sense that Samoan boys and girls are trained from birth to be contributors in the village.
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