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Coming of Age in Samoa is a book by American anthropologist Margaret Mead based upon her research and study of youth — primarily adolescent girls — on the island of Ta'u in the Samoan Islands. The book details the sexual life of teenagers in Samoan society in the early 20th century, and theorizes that culture has a leading influence on psychosexual development. First published in , the book launched Mead as a pioneering researcher and as the most famous anthropologist in the world. It is a key text in the nature versus nurture debate, as well as in discussions on issues relating to family, adolescence, gender, social norms , and attitudes. In the s, Derek Freeman contested many of Mead's claims, and argued that she was hoaxed into counterfactually believing that Samoan culture had more relaxed sexual norms than Western culture.
Their behaviour typically ranges from extravagantly feminine to conventionally masculine. Ultimately, Western terms like gay, transgender, FTM, etc. This is in contrast to women who stated that they merely "liked" engaging in those activities as children.