Chapter 12: Maturity and Old AgeSummary
In this chapter Mead talks about the everyday activities of the older men and women in the village. She also talks about how choosing whether to live in the his own house or or in the wife’s family’s house has an important effect on the husband. Mead describes the married women of the village of age twenty to thirty. Mead also explains how there are almost none or a few minor conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law or father-in-law and son-in-law. The elders are treated with great respect. The men are described as striving for power, titles and acquiring reputations. When a man is old enough and reaches the age of fifty-five or sixty, his title is taken from him and given to another younger man.
In this chapter Mead talks about the everyday activities of the older men and women in the village. She also talks about how choosing whether to live in the his own house or or in the wife’s family’s house has an important effect on the husband. Mead describes the married women of the village of age twenty to thirty. Mead also explains how there are almost none or a few minor conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law or father-in-law and son-in-law. The elders are treated with great respect. The men are described as striving for power, titles and acquiring reputations. When a man is old enough and reaches the age of fifty-five or sixty, his title is taken from him and given to another younger man.
Discussion
I find a great similarity between the primitive stages of developed cultures and the Samoan cultures. Women were denied a lot of rights a century ago even in the developed nations. Values like respecting elders - not by choice but pretty much as a law are examples of other things that are found more evident in the primitive stages of the developed civilizations.
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