"As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of o…"

"I have tried to answer the question which sent me to Samoa: Are the disturbances which vex our adolescents due to the…"

"The Samoan puts the burden of amatory success upon the man and believes that women need more initiating, more time fo…"

"With the exception of the few cases to be discussed in the next chapter, adolescence represented no period of crisis …"

"A society which is clamouring for choice, which is filled with many articulate groups, each urging its own brand of s…"

"What are the rewards of the tiny, ingrown, biological family opposing its closed circle of affection to a forbidding …"

"[In Western Samoa] native theory and vocabulary recognized the real pervert who was incapable of normal heterosexual …"

"Our young people are faced by a series of different groups which believe different things and advocate different prac…"

"Historically our own culture has relied for the creation of rich and contrasting values upon many artificial distinct…"

"During the last hundred years parents and teachers have ceased to take childhood and adolescence for granted. They ha…"