After they reached years of discretion, nine or ten years of age in this case, they may not touch each other, sit close together, eat together, address each other familiarly, or mention any salacious matter in each other's presence." A Samoan village is made up of some thirty or forty households The first baby must always be born in the mother's village and if she has gone to live in the village of her husband, she must go home for the occasion After weaning babies are usually handed over to the care of some younger girl in the household. She sought to discover whether adolescence was a universally traumatic and stressful time due to biological factors or whether the experience of adolescence depended on one's cultural upbringing. Relatives of opposite sex have "a most rigid code of etiquette prescribed for all their contacts with each other. In 1925, Margaret Mead journeyed to the South Pacific territory of American Samoa. What is the taupo? the ceremonial princess of the house, named by a high chief in each village at about fifteen or sixteen. a headman who presides over a household and exercises nominal and usually real authority over every individual under his protection, even over his father and mother. Who gives disciplinary authority within the household? "age rather than relationship" The matai.
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