A Brief List of Ethnological Topics Requiring Study in Samoa; with Outline Sheets

in Margaret Mead Papers and South Pacific Ethnographic Archives, 1838-1996, of United States. Library of Congress. Manuscript Division (N2: American Samoa, Folder 3: Mead field trip, 1925-26. Field data. Notes-field work sheets) (District of Columbia) (1925) , 16 page(s)

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Abstract / Summary: Typewritten sheet titled 'A Brief List of Ethnological Topics Requiring Study in Samoa,' with 'Miss Mead' handwritten at the top of page 1, and accompanying sheets titled 'Outline of placing of immediately relevant information.' The outline sheets cover broad phases of the life span (birth, childhood) along with subtopics such as food, clothing, education, tasks, tabus, and games. There are handwritten notes on these, listing citations to other authors on the topic. The general instructions on page 1 refer to Kraemer's 'Samoa Inseln' ['The Samoa Islands: An Outline of a Monograph With Particular Consideration of German Samoa,' by Augustin Krämer].
Field of Interest: Anthropology
Content Type: Research notes
Duration: 0 sec
Anthropologist / Ethnographer: Margaret Mead, 1901-1978
Warning: Contains explicit content: No
Format: Text
Page Count: 16
Page Range: 1-16
Subject: Anthropology, Social Sciences, Cultural anthropology, Field work for anthropology, Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural, Samoans
Keywords and Translated Subjects: Antropologia Cultural, Antropología Cultural