Chapter 12: Maturity and Old Age
Summary
This chapter talks about the changes in Samoan's adults. The changes are observed when people get married and when they get old. When people get married they can live in the husbands home or the fathers home. Mead describes that even though a man's role is decrease with age, men are always battling to gain a higher role throughout their life.
Discussion
The Samoan way of marriage is definitely different than ours, since they still submit to their elders. I believe that when a couple is ready for marriage, they should already be mature in some sort of way. Let's of course ignore marriages forced by pregnancies or circumstances like that. In this chapter it is also interesting to see how the woman's role increases with age but not the man's role.
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